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Shadow environment minister Terri Butler said Labor would “provide a full government response to the Samuel review”.

The extent these reforms are rolled out will determine the fate of species and ecosystems under pressure from land clearing and habitat degradation. The review made a suite of recommendations to reform the law and protect biodiversity, but almost none have been implemented by the current government. Perhaps the biggest difference between Labor and the Coalition is the response to a 2020 independent review of Australia’s key environment law, by Professor Graeme Samuel.

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The Australian plants at greatest risk of extinction, and how to save them. Like the Coalition, Labor has also promised resources to bolster Landcare, the Indigenous Protected Area network, and increase the number of Indigenous Rangers. It includes $224.5 million of funding to deliver a national conservation strategy, fund rangers, and deal with the backlog of 200 recovery plans that remain unwritten for species such as the greater glider and the Eltham copper butterfly.Īlso welcome is funding for 1,000 full-time Landcare Rangers across the country, which can contribute significantly to land restoration, tackling weeds and feral animals. One welcome initiative is the long-term commitment for a Saving Native Species program. Labor’s policy platform is spruiked as “a better future for the Great Barrier Reef and Australia’s unique environment”, and pledged an additional $194.5 million in reef protection programs. Once-abundant gang-gang cockatoos were recently listed as a threatened species after the 2019-2020 bushfires wiped out their habitat. RMIT University provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU. University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Wintle is a Board Director of Zoos Victoria. She is a Board Member of Bush Heritage Australia, a member of WWF's Eminent Scientists Group and a member of the Advisory Group for Wood for Good.īrendan Wintle has received funding from The Australian Research Council, the Victorian State Government, the NSW State Government, the Queensland State Government, the Commonwealth National Environmental Science Program, the Ian Potter Foundation, the Hermon Slade Foundation, and the Australian Conservation Foundation. Sarah Bekessy receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Ian Potter Foundation and the European Commission. Professor in Conservation Ecology, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University

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