The former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has warned the environment movement is “In danger of fading” in the face of massive challenges protecting habitats from population pressures and climate change.
“I think there’s a danger in recent years of the environment movement fading,” Carr said.
Carr said he believed the best results for the environment were achieved when dedicated voluntary conservationists worked with “Sympathetic Labor governments”.
Carr said he was very confident the premier, Chris Minns, and the environment minister, Penny Sharpe, would work together with the environment movement and farmers on the issue.
A review of the state’s Biodiversity Conservation Act, led by Dr Ken Henry, found the laws were failing to protect the environment and that clearing of vegetation and intensifying land use had led to the destruction of habitat across the state.
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The former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has warned the environment movement is “in danger of fading” in the face of massive challenges protecting habitats from population pressures and climate change.
“I want to give them my engagement to maintain their energy levels because saving species is more urgent than ever given the pressures of population growth and the climate shift.”
“The previous government took a wrecking ball to our environmental protection laws and without decisive action we risk a future where much of the ecosystems we take for granted are no more,” he said.
These include fixing the state’s biodiversity offsets scheme, which Sharpe has committed to doing after several inquiries – prompted by extensive Guardian Australia reporting – identified serious flaws.
Brad Smith, the acting chief executive of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, said this had contributed to a threefold increase in land clearing and allowed for the destruction of important habitat.
The previous government presided over 12 years of environmental neglect that led to record numbers of threatened species, increased land clearing and saw koalas become endangered and on track to extinction.”
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