{"id":12793,"date":"2021-09-02T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:24:40","slug":"ley-must-act-to-protect-tasmanian-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/ley-must-act-to-protect-tasmanian-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Ley must act to protect Tasmanian devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have called on Environment Minister Sussan Ley to\u00a0protect Tasmanian devils from becoming mining-industry roadkill by rejecting Venture Minerals\u2019 application to vary the EPBC approval for its Riley Creek mine in the takayna\/Tarkine region.<br \/>\nThe EDO Tasmania has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edo.org.au\/2021\/08\/25\/supreme-court-case-to-protect-tarkine-devils-from-night-ore-transport\/\">launched legal action<\/a>\u00a0on behalf of conservationists to stop Venture Minerals from trucking ore at night along the 112kms stretch of critical Tasmanian devil habitat.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Senator for Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWith the stroke of a pen Sussan Ley could do the right thing and reject this application, and in doing so gain some credibility as our nation\u2019s Environment Minister, while putting an end to a timely and costly court case.<br \/>\n\u201cThe takayna\/Tarkine area provides critical habitat for Tasmanian devils that are free from the infectious cancer that has decimated their population in other parts of the state &#8211; this is the key reason restrictions were placed on the Venture Minerals mine in this area nearly a decade ago.<br \/>\n\u201cThis area also provides habitat for other nationally-listed species vulnerable to extinction, including quolls, giant wedge-tailed eagles and masked owls.<br \/>\n\u201cIndependent expert reports have recommended National and World Heritage listings for parts of the takayna\/Tarkine rainforest for decades.<br \/>\n\u201cIt should be a no-brainer: as Federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley should step up to protect endangered species from becoming extinct by protecting takayna\/Tarkine as a National Park.<br \/>\n\u201cMinister Ley must show leadership and resist the toxic politics that thrives in the marginal seat of Braddon, pitting those who care about nature against the interests of those who seek to exploit takayna\/Tarkine for a few bucks.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens will never stop advocating for stronger federal environmental laws including a zero extinction target, stronger environmental protections and an independent watchdog to hold governments, miners and developers to account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have called on Environment Minister Sussan Ley to\u00a0protect Tasmanian devils from becoming mining-industry roadkill by rejecting Venture Minerals\u2019 application to vary the EPBC approval for its Riley Creek mine in the takayna\/Tarkine region. The EDO Tasmania has\u00a0launched legal action\u00a0on behalf of conservationists to stop Venture Minerals from trucking ore at night along the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/ley-must-act-to-protect-tasmanian-devils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ley must act to protect Tasmanian devils&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}