One of the 3 postcards Wildlife Queensland is distributing as part of its bushland campaign Our climate is changing. Within 60 years, Queensland's rising temperatures and diminishing rainfall will cause the extinction of many native wildlife species, unless we change how we preserve their bushland habitat.
To minimise deaths and extinctions from climate change, we must stop clearing remnant bushland now.
Take action now.
3 reasons why bushland clearing must stop
- Bushland is wildlife habitat. The more native bushland and wildlife corridors there are, the better the habitat and the better chance wildlife has of surviving the effects of climate change.
- There is no need to lose more bushland to development. Plenty of cleared land is already available for new housing and industrial estates.
- The Queensland Government has the power to stop the clearing of Queensland bush. The Vegetation Management Act 1999 is supposed to protect our bushland, but its power is limited by other laws. For example, rural bush is protected from clearing but urban land and land used for mining is not protected, even though there is valuable bushland habitat there.
What Wildlife Queensland is doing
Through the Protecting Our Bushland Campaign, Wildlife Queensland has asked the Queensland Government to amend the Integrated Planning Act 1997 and the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-2026 to allow the Vegetation Management Act 1999 to apply to all of Queensland without exception.
What you can do to help
- The Queensland Government ePetition Protecting our bushland closed on 25 November 2006 and has been tabled. You can still sign the paper petition form, see below.
- Download the paper petition form and collect signatures. Return the petition to us at WPSQ before 30 January 2007 and we'll arrange for it to be tabled in Parliament.
- Send a postcard to a state politician requesting them to support the amendment of the Integrated Planning Act 1997. Ask your local WPSQ branch or WPSQ head office (minimum order 10 cards) or a Wildlife Campaigner for postcards to sign and send to your local member, the Premier and the Minister for the Environment.
- Make a submission to the Review of the Integrated Planning Act 1997. How to make a submission.
More information
For more information on Wildlife Queensland's Protecting Our Bushland Campaign, read Recent submissions.
For more information on Wildlife Queensland's activities, contact us by email or call +61 7 3221 0194.
Wildlife Queensland - July 2006 |
