{"id":13023,"date":"2021-09-18T07:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T07:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13023"},"modified":"2021-09-18T07:04:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T07:04:32","slug":"incredulous-infuriating-the-tasmanian-devil-recovery-plan-set-to-be-axed-by-morrison-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/incredulous-infuriating-the-tasmanian-devil-recovery-plan-set-to-be-axed-by-morrison-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredulous, infuriating: the Tasmanian devil recovery plan set to be axed by Morrison Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have condemned the Morrison Government for proposing changes to conservation planning decisions that would see the Tasmanian devil\u00a0recovery plan scrapped.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTasmanian devils are endangered and their recovery from the infectious cancer that decimated their population is far from over.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia&#8217;s in an extinction crisis and recovery plans are one of the key instruments that we have to help threatened species recover.<br \/>\n\u201cThe proposal to scrap the Tasmanian devil\u2019s recovery plan is frighteningly short-sighted, but what we have come to expect from this government.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a case in point example of the federal government\u2019s attempts to offload their environmental responsibilities to the states.<br \/>\n\u201cAbandoning the Tasmanian devil now, after so much time and money and love has been poured into keeping the treasured species alive and healthy, is a cruel death sentence.<br \/>\n\u201cAside from the facial tumour disease the Tasmanian devil still faces significant threats from land clearing, mining, forestry and from becoming roadkill.<br \/>\n\u201cFederal funding has been critical to the Tasmanian devil\u2019s survival, but this ended in 2017. I recently wrote to Environment Minister Sussan Ley urging her to provide more federal assistance to help the devil recover &#8211; but this\u00a0has\u00a0clearly been disregarded.<br \/>\n\u201cThe public now has a limited time to oppose this reckless proposal, and I urge them to jump through the unnecessary hoops the Government has put in place to have their voice heard.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens will continue to fight 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 condemned the Morrison Government for proposing changes to conservation planning decisions that would see the Tasmanian devil\u00a0recovery plan scrapped. Greens Senator for lutruwita\/Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson said: \u201cTasmanian devils are endangered and their recovery from the infectious cancer that decimated their population is far from over. \u201cAustralia&#8217;s in an extinction crisis and recovery &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/incredulous-infuriating-the-tasmanian-devil-recovery-plan-set-to-be-axed-by-morrison-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Incredulous, infuriating: the Tasmanian devil recovery plan set to be axed by Morrison Government&#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-13023","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\/13023","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=13023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}