Today\u2019s announcement that the Lower Murray, including the Coorong and Lower Lakes, will finally be listed as \u2018critically endangered\u2019 under Australia\u2019s environment laws is welcome, but long overdue. This critically endangered listing must now drive urgent, practical action to restore the Coorong and Lower Lakes, prioritise the delivery of the promised environmental water, and uphold First Nations cultural and spiritual connections.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator for SA and Greens spokesperson for the environment and water, Sarah Hanson-Young:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDecades of over extraction and corporate greed have left South Australia\u2019s River Murray in peril. This listing must be a turning point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe listing is long overdue and enormously significant, but with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan due to expire, the new plan must urgently address the critically endangered Lower Murray and Coorong. \u201cThis listing should mean tougher scrutiny on new irrigation and industrial developments, stronger protections for our waterways and threatened species, and an end to upstream decisions that starve the Coorong and Lower Lakes of the fresh water they need to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo ensure the health of the river, the full 450 gigalitres that has been promised to South Australia in environmental water must be delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s announcement that the Lower Murray, including the Coorong and Lower Lakes, will finally be listed as \u2018critically endangered\u2019 under Australia\u2019s environment laws is welcome, but long overdue. This critically endangered listing must now drive urgent, practical action to restore the Coorong and Lower Lakes, prioritise the delivery of the promised environmental water, and uphold … Continue reading “\u2018Critically Endangered\u2019 listing must be a turning point to save our River Murray”<\/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-36904","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\/36904","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=36904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36905,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions\/36905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cFor years, South Australians, First Nations communities, scientists and river communities have been warning that the Murray and the Coorong are being bled dry by upstream over-extraction, corporate greed, and the growing impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n