REPORT PREPARED EVERY 5 YEARS
The writing is on the wall and the headlines are scary.
And yes, we know that the Australia State of the Environment report is from 2021 but we think it is worth sharing – again.
Visit the interactive government site dedicated to this report here.
REPORT HEADLINES INCLUDE…
BUT THERE IS HOPE…
At Save Our Woodlands we believe that it is NOT too late and that with your help, we can make a difference! With your help, we are most definitely embracing our role as stewards of our land with four unique land-protecting and enhancing projects well underway.
OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT…
The Australia state of the environment 2021 was written by a panel of independent authors, using the best available evidence, assured through consultation, peer‑review and fact‑checking processes, and building on 25 years of experience in national environmental reporting.
This is the first time the report has included Indigenous voices, highlighting the importance of cultural knowledge that has sustained Australia for tens of thousands of years.
The report provides a synthesis and overall outlook for the Australian environment, including detailed content and assessments found in 12 thematic chapters on:
- air quality
- Antarctica
- biodiversity
- climate
- coasts
- extreme events
- heritage
- Indigenous
- inland water
- land
- marine
- urban
Each of these web‑based chapters contains detailed discussions of the condition of the Australian environment, taking into account the pressures on it and the effectiveness of management.
These are brought together to present the overall outlook for the Australian environment and the potential impacts on the well-being of Australians.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT…
This report indicates that, overall, the state and trend of the environment of Australia are poor and deteriorating as a result of increasing pressures from climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and resource extraction.
Changing environmental conditions mean that many species and ecosystems are increasingly threatened.
Multiple pressures create cumulative impacts that amplify threats to the environment, and abrupt changes in ecological systems have been recorded in the past 5 years.
Adequately resourced, innovative, responsive and collaborative management measures will foster investment and renewed action to turn things around.
Australia currently lacks a framework that delivers holistic environmental management to integrate our disconnected legislative and institutional national, state and territory systems, and break down existing barriers to stimulate new models and partnerships for innovative environmental management and financing.
With decreasing health of Country, Indigenous people continue to seek a larger role in managing its recovery back to health. Indigenous people seek greater participation in Australia’s environmental management system.
Respectful use of Indigenous knowledge, recognition of Indigenous knowledge rights, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge systems working together will lead to positive change.
Our inability to adequately manage pressures will continue to result in species extinctions and deteriorating ecosystem condition, which are reducing the environmental capital on which current and future economies depend. Social, environmental and economic impacts are already apparent.
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.
Our work is only possible with your support.
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