After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?
- Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?
An end to extinctions. An environmental cop on the beat. Labor promised a great deal on the environment. But yesterday, they backed away from the main challenge.
A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.
Offering ‘carrots’ like biodiversity credits to landholders won’t stop natural collapse. Banning land clearing and stronger environmental laws are much more likely to work.
Yes, the new threatened species plan is better. But it’s nowhere near enough to actually prevent Australian species from dying out
The Victorian government is overhauling its rules on native vegetation clearing, the first major change in this area for more than a decade. Vegetation management policy rarely makes it into the news…
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