POLICY SUMMARY

To read the full details of the Greens NSW Biodiversity Policy click the orange download button on the right.

Biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem processes maintain Earth’s life support systems, including the climate system. The protection and conservation of biodiversity is essential for the wellbeing of all life on Earth, including human life.

Our biodiversity is in crisis and we need an overhaul of the laws that currently fail to protect our remaining environmental stocks. We will ensure that protected flora and fauna will actually be protected.  The wealth of biodiversity has too much value to simply be an inconvenient obstacle when planning developments.

The Greens will work to:

  • Ensure the survival of internationally significant species of migratory animals by protecting coastal and wetland areas which provide key habitats for these migratory species.
  • Halt Australia’s appalling record of biodiversity protection, including the worst level of mammal species extinctions of any country.
  • Reduce threats to biodiversity include introduced and exotic species, regulation of river flow, altered fire regimes, pollution, mining, logging, grazing and urbanisation.
  • Widespread application of the ‘precautionary principle’ in relation to biodiversity protection
  • Strengthen impact assessment requirements that will apply to all remaining ecosystems and not just certain threatened areas.