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What is the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act? How to make it an effective nature conservation law Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year How the FFG Act protects nature Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year How the FFG Act works in practice Lists threatened species, ecological communities, and potentially threatening process Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Action statements <50% Flora and fauna management plans Nil Critical Habitat Determinations Interim Conservation Orders Public Authority Management Agreements One in last ten years Nil Plant offences A person must not take, trade in, keep, move or process protected flora without a permit Permit to take EXEMPTIONS Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Not just a threatened species law Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Real life examples Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Photo Credits: 1. Leadbeater’s Possum: Healesville Sanctuary 2. Manna gums: Ben Moore 3. Tree marked for clearing by VicRoads: WHAM The government’s proposals: A better way forward? Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year The government’s proposals: What to support and strengthen Fair go for threatened species Nature cop on the beat (enforcement) • Public authorities must have better ‘regard’ to biodiversity in decision making • Improved critical habitat provisions • BUT these need to go further • Increased penalties • Improved range of enforcement tools • Possibly, civil, as well as criminal, penalties Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Targets and timelines • Biodiversity targets in the biodiversity plan Community power to act • New obligations around making information public • Community rights to review government decisions • BUT this needs to go further The government’s proposals: What’s missing Fair go for threatened species Stronger stop and protect powers • Strong standard of protection for all threatened species • Removal of exemptions for certain industries • A clear obligation around when critical habitat must be declared and protected • Emphasis on threatening processes: mitigation and prevention Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year Nature cop on the beat • An independent authority to monitor and enforce the FFG Act Targets and timelines • More certainty that the biodiversity plan can become, and will remain, an up to date, detailed and focused biodiversity strategy The government’s proposals: major concerns Loss of guarantee? Landscape approach at the expense of individual species protection? Loss of mandatory action statements Public authorities as model guardians? Presentation Details www.envirojustice.org.au Day / Month / Year