Labor came to government on the back of a strong vote for real action on climate change, but have now reneged on the promise to introduce stronger environment protection laws. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
There are growing calls聽on Minister Tanya Plibersek to ensure the country's main environment law takes climate change into account when assessing new fossil fuel and forestry projects. Pip Hinman reports.
Labor is rushing a dangerous聽amendment though parliament that would exempt the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines from important environmental protections. As Bevan Ramsden argues, this has be聽strenuously opposed.
Australian scientists,聽led by Tim Flannery, want federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to heed the science聽and聽ensure all assessments of new gas and coal projects are evidence-based.聽Pip Hinman聽reports.
Australia has national environmental laws 鈥 the (EPBC Act). Yet given the staggering rates of land clearing taking place, resulting in the extinction and endangerment of plants and animals in Australia, these laws are clearly not working.
Conservationists say the Strzelecki Ranges hold 鈥渙ne of the most important koala populations in Australia鈥, after completing surveys that may suggest a population of several thousand koalas across the region.
Surveys conducted in Victoria's Strzelecki Ranges and South Gippsland over 2013鈥2016 indicate a population of almost 1000 koalas in the 10,500 hectare area surveyed, koala expert Dr Steve Phillips told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is seeking to make changes to Australia鈥檚 national environment act to stop conservation groups from challenging ministerial decisions on major resource developments and other matters of environmental importance.
Vital nesting trees for Australia's critically endangered Swift parrot in a forest at Buckland in southern Tasmania, have been illegally logged.
They were caught in the act by researcher Dejan Stojanovic from the Australian National University, who said: 鈥淭here was two cars worth of blokes standing around the base of one of my nest trees ... This site is one of the most important locations for Swift parrots on mainland Tasmania.
鈥淪ince 2010, of the 18 nest trees that I've been monitoring with motion-activated cameras, 10 have been cut down.
The federal Coalition鈥檚 plan to repeal a section of a 16-year-old environmental law can only be for one reason 鈥 to support mining companies at the expense of communities and the environment.
Attorney General George Brandis announced on August 19the government planned to repeal section 487 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) which gives the community the right to enforce Australia鈥檚 environmental laws and hold decision makers and corporations to account.