Saving our species Landscape Species Strategy

Saving Our Species ‘Landscape Species Strategy’ – consultation draft, and Proposed amendments to the Priorities Action Statement

18 September 2015 - Download PDF

Summary
This submission to the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage comments on proposed amendments to NSW threatened species priorities, and a Strategy for protecting some species at a landscape scale. It addresses:

• major ongoing biodiversity law reform and integration of the Priorities Action Statement (PAS);
• problems with biodiversity protection under planning laws;
• objectives, indicators, targets and monitoring under the draft Landscape Species Strategy, and
• PAS amendments for specific species must be transparent, responsive to climate change, and aim to recover species.