My apologies if this has been mentioned previously. This policy is available for comment until 21 October.
Essentially it’s broad brush stuff until one gets to the bit about how “The conservation estate [national parks, reserves etc] is the backbone of our efforts.
For many bird (and bat) species, the conservation estate simply isn’t going to cut it. Too much of their habitat is either disparate, on land that is owned and the owners have no intention of changing that and so on …
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/publications/consultation-draft-biodiversity-policy.html
The policy itself is an easy read that is only 11 pages. If you have time to have a look and comment, so much the better.
cheers storm
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Storm, Thanks for bringing this so-called policy document to our attention. These sorts of policies should be (need to be) important in shaping efforts to stem the loss of biodiversity in this country. Unfortunately this one seems to be more of the same old hollow rhetoric from the federal environment department. Lots of fancy words, euphemisms, opportunities, leveraging, but no action. The document promises there will be lots of coordination, cooperation, innovation, accountability, planning, preparation, leadership, fostering, maximising, investing (no, not with actual money), valuing, decision making, integrating, adapting, spreading of risk and other verbal meaninglessness, ad nauseum. However, there are no actions and no consideration of improving the totally inadequate funding levels that prevail. Unfortunately, the federal environment department is an impotent organisation run by mediocre, office-bound bureaucrats who have a very poor grasp of the biodiversity conservation issues in this country and no agenda to deliver effective management. A document like this will allow ongoing inaction and ineffectiveness to be accounted as achieving of policy goals. Get ready for continuing biodiversity collapse.
David James, Sydney burunglaut07@yahoo.com ==============================
________________________________ Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011 7:46 PM
My apologies if this has been mentioned previously. This policy is available for comment until 21 October.
Essentially it’s broad brush stuff until one gets to the bit about how “The conservation estate [national parks, reserves etc] is the backbone of our efforts.
For many bird (and bat) species, the conservation estate simply isn’t going to cut it. Too much of their habitat is either disparate, on land that is owned and the owners have no intention of changing that and so on …
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/publications/consultation-draft-biodiversity-policy.html
The policy itself is an easy read that is only 11 pages. If you have time to have a look and comment, so much the better.
cheers storm
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