"kill a camel" to cut the concept of pollution in Australia (AFP)

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia plans to allow carbon credits to kill wild camels as a means to combat climate change.

The suggestion is included in "carbon farming Initiative of Canberra", a consultation document by the Department of climate change and energy efficiency, seen Thursday.

Based in Adelaide Northwest carbon, a commercial company, proposed some 1.2 million of wild camels that roam the Outback, the legacy of herds introduced to help settlers in the 19th century the slaughter.

Considered a pest because of damage to vegetation, a camel produces, on average, equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide per year, making them collectively one of the major emitters of the Australia of the gas methane greenhouse.

In its plan, Northwest said it shot from a helicopter or gather and send to a slaughterhouse for human consumption or animal of company.

"We are a nation of innovators and we find innovative solutions to our challenges - it is just a classic example", Director General of the Northwest carbon Tim Moore told Australian Associated Press.

The idea was among those accepted by the Government, which seeks to "provide new economic opportunities for farmers, forest producers and landowners", be they agree on ways to reduce emissions, according to the discussion paper.

Heavily dependent on electric powered coal and mining exports, the Australia is one of the worst polluters per capita in the world and the Government looks at ways to clean up its act.

Legislation for the "agricultural carbon Initiative" is set to go before Parliament next week.

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Camels Australia could be turned to curbing methane (AP)

CANBERRA, Australia - shooters could be paid to the slaughter of camels methane belching that roam the Outback in an effort to reduce emissions of greenhouse and very large population of Australia.

The Government wants that the murder of camels wild to be officially registered as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Australia under a law proposed a vote in Parliament next week, with shooters accumulate so-called carbon credits.

If logging is registered, industrial polluters in the world would be able to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing carbon by shooters credits.

Legislator Mark Dreyfus, said Thursday he hoped attaching carbon credits for each camel killed led to their extinction in Australian nature.

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Announcements of gay sex safe Australia reinstated to the medium furore (AFP)

SYDNEY (AFP) - Safe sex advocates claimed a victory over the Australia Christian lobby Wednesday, when their HIV featuring campaign posters two men hugging were restored to bus stops after an intense backlash online.

Black and white posters where a man has his arm draped across the chest of his partner and is holding a condom, are part of the Queensland Association for the campaign "rip and roll" healthy communities, promote the use of condoms.

The ads were withdrawn by billboard Adshel company after a string of complaints, but later, the company reversed this decision, saying that he was unwittingly targeted by the Australian Christian Lobby.

"This has led us to reconsider our decision to withdraw the campaign and we will be restoring the campaign with immediate effect," Adshel CEO Steve McCarthy said in a statement.

Healthy communities Paul Martin Executive Director said that the Australians were generally supportive of gay rights, and that he was encouraged by the public reaction to the decision to remove the posters.

"Most people do not have a problem with homosexual persons," he said.

At the end of Wednesday, some 40,897 people had joined a Facebook page called "homophobia ?? does not here" created by one men featured in posters, and demonstrators had held a rally in the afternoon outside the Adshel Brisbane office.

Australian Christian Lobby Queensland Director Wendy Francis stated that she had complained personally ads because she objected to what she said, was the sexual nature of the posters.

"They show two young gay men in a sort of Act of foreplay," she said. "It is talking about a sexual act, and I do not think that it is appropriate for the general public."

But Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser dismissed his comments.

"Check the calendar, this is the 2011," he said. "" "". "I think that we should call for what it is and it is homophobia base".

Healthy communities, said that more people have been diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 2010 that at any time since the mid-1980s, and it was therefore important to discuss safe sex.

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Dependence of the Australia on coal pollution waves (AFP)

SYDNEY (AFP) - use of the Australia of renewable energy as a source of electricity has fallen as a percentage of the total production over the past 50 years with an increased dependence on polluting coal, research showed Tuesday.

A report, "Australia?" s Mix of generation of electricity 1960-2009 ", shows that renewable energies provided 19 per cent of the nation? s power in 1960 but only seven per cent in 2008.

During the same period Australia? s overall energy consumption has increased more 10 times with coal power increased by 1,200%.

"Unfortunately, we"? "ve made little progress to clean up our supply of electricity over the past 50 years," said Mark Wakeham environment Victoria, a non governmental organization that commissioned the report.

"The growth of polluting the generation of coal far outweighs the growth of renewable energy." It is a shocking performance, given the strength of the Australia renewable energy resources.

"This trend continued during the past decade despite an array of climate change of the State and national programs."

"What this research clearly shows who is without a price for carbon, the Australian economy will continue with the usual pollution."

Australians are among the worst polluters of carbon per capita in the world and over the years, different national regimes have been proposed to reduce harmful emissions, but none has ever been applied.

First Labour Minister Julia Gillard provides a carbon tax of levied on major industrial polluters by July 1, 2012, and then go to the show full in three to five years.

But the plan has seen his personal popularity and diving commands to work with the majority of voters opposed to the idea.

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