Protect our threatened species
Our most threatened species could slip into extinction because the Coalition Government wants to slash the jobs of 60 of the people who are working to protect them.
Seventeen birds and mammals are expected to disappear in the next year 20 years unless Australia improves its protection of threatened species and their habitat.
The survival of species including the orange-bellied parrot, Northern hopping mouse and helmeted honeyeater depends on the community standing up stop the cuts to the Department of Environment and Energy staff who work to prevent Australia’s accelerating extinction rate. We need long-term resourcing for policy, protection and regulation.
Sign to send a message to The Minister for Environment and Energy Melissa Price, that the community will not stand for these cuts.
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Experts estimate that every day one hundred species of flora and fauna are lost forever and looming climate change will increase the loss. A quarter of the earth’s 5 to 10 million plants, animals, micro-organisms and ecosystems are at serious risk of extinction within the next 20 to 30 years. This chilling warning came from the United Nations Environment Programme: – As quoted by Vincent Serventy In “Australia’s Endangered Wildlife” 1990
That 30 years is now almost up. How well have we done?? Many people including Government wildlife agencies contributed to this book.
Please do not ignore the “research and observations of hundreds of scientists, wildlife officers, naturalists and thousands of years of indigenous people’s knowledge.
I, and all Australians owe a debt of gratitude to those people who spend their lives studying and protecting our endangered species”, – Neil Hermes “Australia’s Endangered Wildlife” 1990.
“We must be prepared to grant the right to existence to species other than Man, without being threatened by the obvious truth that our own survival may ultimately depend on them.” – Raymond Dasmann. “Australia’s Endangered Wildlife” 1990.
ISBN 0-86777-350-2
To Err now is to deny science and past and current knowledge.
To Err now is to take away value from all the hours and hours of research and much human intellectual and emotional investment.
To Err now is to destroy the knowledge that the governments of the past have contributed to vastly with huge financial commitments.
Mr Fyrdenburg, as the Minister for the Environment and Energy I urge you to consider future generations in your environmental policies.