Turning the Tide Newsletter – Spring 2024
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This is a once in a generation opportunity to significantly increase protection for our environment and wildlife.
Australia’s environment laws are being rewritten for the first time in over 20 years. This is a critical opportunity to ensure nature is protected and restored, by replacing the existing outdated laws with stronger laws to improve monitoring and enforcement, and remove loopholes that allow for the ongoing destruction of nature.
The ‘if you love it, help save it’ campaign launched late last year across the Places You Love (PYL) alliance of 70 organisations. In a coordinated effort AMCS, alongside other alliance members, is calling for strong new national environment laws.
We’re urgently calling on the Australian government to deliver strong new national environment laws that:
- Enact strong National Environmental Standards that safeguard nature against further destruction.
- Properly fund habitat restoration and species recovery.
- Create an independent agency Environment Protection Australia (EPA) that will monitor and enforce these new laws.
- Close legal loopholes that favour big businesses over nature.
