Environmental powerhouse, or toothless tiger? Michael Slezak looks at the impact of a proposed federal regulator, in light of how land clearing is managed in Australia.
In a 2023 survey of 3,400 people, 92 per cent of respondents said they wanted protections introduced for a greater number of threatened species at risk from things like land clearing , invasive species and climate change .
Ms Plibersek has framed the new EPA's purpose as to protect Australia's 'natural treasures', such as the world heritage-listed Daintree rainforest.The government provides a bunch of tools to help landowners figure that out, including the "protected matters search tool" that shows what protected species are thought to exist on any piece of land.
Northern Australia refers to land from across Queensland, the Northern Territory and the top half of Western Australia. Since much of the rest of the continent was cleared long ago, that's where most deforestation happens today. "Ill-informed activist agendas have gone too far and threaten to prevent farmers from protecting the environment as they produce the food and fibre that feeds the nation, as well as our export markets," said NSW Farmers Conservation and Resource Management Committee Chair Bronwyn Petrie recently, when promoting a rally in Canberra this week.
The farming industry and their supporters went berserk, calling the move "preposterous" and "unconscionable". Conservationists are urging Coles and Woolworths to stop selling beef from properties that clear forest. In that brief window, a deputy secretary of the environment department began the process of "calling in" the planned clearing of 560 hectares of native forest in Queensland, on Kingvale Station.If a farmer wants to clear land they need to make an assessment about whether that action will have a "significant impact" on threatened species or protected environments like the Great Barrier Reef.But by using the call-in powers, the department forced it to be assessed.
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