From the moment Tanya Plibersek stepped off the plane yesterday, she has been handwringing on critical areas of her portfolio responsibility in Tasmania.
There is just a tiny number of critically endangered swift parrots remaining. We need to go all out to protect the remaining nesting and foraging trees.
Forestry Tasmania is in there right now, like barbarians in a cathedral, destroying critical habitat of the fastest parrot on the planet.
The fastest parrot on Earth is listed as endangered under the Threatened Species Protection Act and critically endangered under the EPBC Act.
Tasmania's most internationally eminent specialist on the skate, Neville Barrett, fears for the coming heatwave summer maybe taking it to extinction then.
The Tasmanian Greens understand that the climate and biodiversity crisis we are in requires urgent attention.
The recent research by IMAS has the ancient Maugean skate on the brink of extinction.
The planet, as you know, is overheating and countless species are being driven to extinction, including animals like the critically endangered swift parrot.
Governments have a moral responsibility to protect intact habitat and build carbon stores, but that’s not reflected in this year’s State Budget.
There is evidence that there has been a substantial decline in this endangered species between 2014 and 2021 .