Regretfully the NSW Government:
- continues to disregards Ku-ring-gai’s unique and fragile natural environment by the imposition of a ‘one size fails all’ Transport Oriented Development SEPP
- is giving the green light for Greater Sydney’ s biodiversity to obliterate from urban trees and gardens that will result in habitat loss through the undemocratic imposition of housing densification in response to the huge increase in population since the COVID pandemic
- prioritising developers’ interests and profits before good town planning principles and environmental protection and sets to obliterate much of Greater Sydney’s urban tree canopy in bushland suburbs including Ku-ring-gai
- continues destructive and intensive logging of NSW’s public native forests that threatens the surviavl of species like the koala, greater glider. See Nature Conservation Council of NSW report Public native forest logging: a large and growing taxpayer burden, November 2023
- still has yet to end to excess land clearing. The NSW Vegetation Clearing Report released 31 July 2023 acknowledges that land clearing for agriculture is still increasing – woody vegetation clearing for agriculture has increased by 15%
- still has yet to implement promised stronger environmental protections laws, following Ken Henry’s Final Report, Independent Review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 in August 2023; and stop the diversity extinction decline as outlined in the NSW State of the Environment Report, 2021 that reports taht the number of species considered at risk of extinction continues to rise with 1,043 NSW species listed as threatened, 18 more than reported three years ago. A further 116 ecological communities are also listed as threatened
- still has yet to gazette the Great Koala National Park on NSW’s north coast
- continues with flawed biodiversity offsets laws that allow developers to trade one species for another species and abandons the ‘like for like’ that can destroy species forever
- However, some biodiversity offset provisions have been reformed
- has implemented anti-democratic anti-protest laws
December 2024 Nature News
