Australian government stops listing major threats to species under environment laws
NB: This is an object lesson in corporate tyranny. It controls political parties that are
poisoning the life-sustaining properties of the entire planet in order to maintain corporate profitability. Young people today have to recognise this, and use what remains of their democratic rights to stop the steam-roller before it destroys their future.
The report below concerns Australia, but if you examine the ecologically-related decisions of so-called 'nation-loving' governments from Modi to Trump to Bolsanaro, their contempt for environmental protection will emerge as the common feature. DS
The federal government has stopped listing major threats to species under national environment laws, and plans to address listed threats are often years out of date or have not been done at all. Environment department documents released under freedom of information laws show the government has stopped assessing what are known as “key threatening processes”, which are major threats to the survival of native wildlife.
Conservationists say it highlights the dysfunctional nature of Australia’s environmental framework, which makes aspects of wildlife protection optional for government. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act is being reviewed, a once-a-decade requirement under the legislation, and there are calls for greater accountability rules to be built into Australia’s environmental laws....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/08/australian-government-stops-listing-major-threats-to-species-under-environment-laws
see also
Book review: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History // Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change
From Siberia to Australia: the age of fire is the bleakest warning yet
Could the Free World start cleaning
up its act - from the bottom up?
poisoning the life-sustaining properties of the entire planet in order to maintain corporate profitability. Young people today have to recognise this, and use what remains of their democratic rights to stop the steam-roller before it destroys their future.
The report below concerns Australia, but if you examine the ecologically-related decisions of so-called 'nation-loving' governments from Modi to Trump to Bolsanaro, their contempt for environmental protection will emerge as the common feature. DS
The federal government has stopped listing major threats to species under national environment laws, and plans to address listed threats are often years out of date or have not been done at all. Environment department documents released under freedom of information laws show the government has stopped assessing what are known as “key threatening processes”, which are major threats to the survival of native wildlife.
Conservationists say it highlights the dysfunctional nature of Australia’s environmental framework, which makes aspects of wildlife protection optional for government. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act is being reviewed, a once-a-decade requirement under the legislation, and there are calls for greater accountability rules to be built into Australia’s environmental laws....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/08/australian-government-stops-listing-major-threats-to-species-under-environment-laws
see also
Book review: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History // Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change
From Siberia to Australia: the age of fire is the bleakest warning yet
