Protecting our Bushland Campaign: Sign the ePetition
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 WPSQ's campaigns, email or phone +61 (7) 3221
0194.
Wildlife Queensland, July 2006
