With all that’s going on in the biodiversity space now, from the Task Force for Nature-related Disclosures to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act reforms and the Nature Repair Bill, you would be forgiven for being a little overwhelmed.
The Nature Positive Plan: better for the environment, better for business, released yesterday, sets out the Australian Government’s plan to introduce legislation to Parliament before the end of 2023 to overhaul Federal environmental laws, including the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), and to create an Independent National Environmental Protection Authority.
In December 2021, the Queensland Government’s Statewide Land and Tree Study (SLATS) released the most recent detections of forest and woodland destruction for 2018-19 using a new and more accurate methodology. This report analyses the 2018-19 SLATS data to quantify destruction of forested habitats for threatened species and threatened ecological communities.