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Environment groups have welcomed some of the proposed major changes.
Rachel Lowry, WWF-Australia’s chief conservation officer, said a lack of enforcement was the “single greatest failing” of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, so the central role of an EPA was welcome, as was a proposal to establish a “red line” that would prohibit most development in environmentally sensitive areas.
However, she said the proposed timeline to introduce legislation in late 2023 was concerning because any real change would be unlikely to occur until 2024.
“Our wildlife and wild places cannot afford to wait this long for action,” she said.
James Trezise of the Invasive Species Council said moves to modernise conservation planning were welcome but the package released on Thursday was “effectively silent” on managing threats to the environment. He said the government would not achieve its zero extinctions goal unless threats were tackled.
Over the past 20 years, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act has failed to protect the places, plants and animals we love.
But right now, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to change that.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has just announced plans for a new national framework of environment laws.
While we welcome some important commitments in her plans, there’s a long way to go to meet the scale of the environmental crises we’re facing. As environmental lawyers, we’re concerned this draft plan has some significant gaps and issues that could jeopardise the whole thing.
If done right, these reforms could turn around Australia’s extinction crisis – and fix countless other threats to places, plants and animals all at the same time.
Opportunities like this don’t come around often.
Minister Plibersek needs to know people right across this continent are calling on her to fix these laws – for all of the wonders of our natural world, for the animals and plants that shape our shared identity, for the world we can’t live without.
Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.
Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.
Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.
BUT we need YOUR help. Together we can bring about change. Please consider donating.
People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats. By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.
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