With apologies for the image quality. Planting trees on the Parliament lawns on 31 Dec 1988, to draw attention to the fact that in our Bicentenary, we spent twice as much landscaping the new Parliament House as we spent landscaping the rest of Australia.

in 1988 the National Soil Conservation Program, the National Afforestation Program and the National Tree Program shared a total of $8.5million. Landscaping the new Parliament House cost $16million.

We’ve come a long way!

Mark Jackson

Pioneer, lobbyist, activist and entrepreneur

On the front line, building the bioregional infrastructure of a kinder society.

• Timber faller and reforestation contractor (1970s)

• Activist and lobbyist for reforestation, rainforest conservation and Landcare (1980s),

• Pioneer of Green Employment programs (1990s)

• Carbon market pioneer (from 1997 and ongoing)

• Author of the first paper on using a minimum of 100 years of guaranteed carbon storage as a benchmark for permanence, and as a way of aligning sustained carbon storage with sustainable natural resource management

• Managed Australia's first avoided deforestation project (Minding the Carbon Store) in 2004-2006

• Pioneer of managed regrowth projects in Australia

• Expert Reviewer of the IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

• Project Manager for the Greenhouse Challenge Vegetation Sinks Workbook, published 1999

• Industry Liaison Officer for the forest sector – Greenhouse Challenge & Australian Greenhouse Office (1996-1999)

• Regional Manager – Greening Australia (1990 – 1996)