The decision by PWS to clear critical habitat for endangered bird species on Maria Island to build a wastewater treatment plant is astounding and the wrong priority.
The government's committed $2 million a year over four years to threatened species. With 680 threatened species in Tasmania, that works out at just under $3000 a year per species.
This week your Environment minister talked up the private sector's role in protecting critical swift parrot habitat, an important action identified in the new National Recovery Plan for the Swift Parrot. The recovery plan identifies native forest logging as a key risk to the future of the species.
New in-depth research has again shown the swift parrot is on the brink of extinction due to native forest logging. It's well past time for Liberal and Labor politicians to recognise how alarming this situation is, and to act accordingly by ending native forest logging.
The Greens come from a proud history of forest defending. When this island’s wild places are threatened, so often it has been Bob Brown standing in their defence.
The Supreme Court's decision to halt logging in Southern Tasmanian swift parrot habitat is a huge win for this endangered species, and continues to stain the Liberals' log-at-all-cost operations across the state.
Tasmanians were very distressed earlier this year to see an image of this young Tasmanian devil that was incinerated in a logging burn.
The Greens strongly support the Bob Brown Foundation's ongoing protest action in southern lutruwita/Tasmania
They are still working towards FSC but they will never get it, because of their forestry practices.
In an extraordinary abrogation of his duty, Minister for the Environment, Roger Jaensch dodged his responsibility to protect the swift parrot from extinction.