{"id":7488,"date":"2020-07-29T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:39:45","slug":"wildlife-toll-shows-environment-needs-stronger-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/wildlife-toll-shows-environment-needs-stronger-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer\u2019s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it\u2019s clear now is not the time to rush through legislation that will weaken environmental protections, the Greens say.<br \/>\nGreens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said with 3 billion native animals killed or displaced as a result of the catastrophic fires, and Australia already holding the dishonour of worst mammalian extinction rate in the world, our wildlife was in crisis and needed urgent protection.<br \/>\n\u201cOff the back of one of the worst environmental disasters our country has seen, the Morrison Government is planning to fast-track legislation that puts our wildlife and environment at further risk.<br \/>\n\u201cI urge the Prime Minister and the Environment Minister to respond to the finding of 3 billion dead or displaced animals and reconsider their environment-destroying plans.<br \/>\n\u201cOur natural world cannot withstand more logging, land clearing and pollution for the sake of corporate profits. The PM needs to stand up for the environment instead of his mining and big developer mates.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need strong environmental laws and a cop on the beat to enforce them \u2013 anything less and we are going to lose koalas and more of our native animals for good.<br \/>\n\u201cThe 10-year independent review should be completed and properly considered before any legislative change that risks killing more of our wildlife and destroying even more of our environment.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Senate Inquiry into the Faunal Extinction Crisis, chaired by Senator Hanson-Young, is holding a hearing tomorrow from 12pm EST, to examine the interim report from the review of Australia\u2019s environment laws (the EPBC Act). Witnesses include Independent Reviewer Professor Graeme Samuel and the ANAO. The full program can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sarahinthesenate.nationbuilder.com\/r?u=q9erT9T-RIkerLkN1EoI7IshxImwDHxg_FTEfTN7Rh_bE3_21f1WUHExFMudJYtiVISDDe5i37YYCDbbcN541K5CRGlm3iZ1y6ghqiMrx2rnOxf0erkynoQ3rLK-VK1rGyBTLgSNgKSvEvVELprb3rEdNuX5CqiN98UFcrxGrJUshS2YdDy7AesQCkmAkH4b&amp;e=9855cf598c40b7e2c0a6a0a92ee66370&amp;utm_source=sarahinthesenate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mr_3banimalskilled_290720&amp;n=1&amp;test_email=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer\u2019s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it\u2019s clear now is not the time to rush through legislation that will weaken environmental protections, the Greens say. Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said with 3 billion native animals killed or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/wildlife-toll-shows-environment-needs-stronger-protections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections&#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-7488","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\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}