New year, new nature laws

New year, new nature laws

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Did you spend time in nature over summer? Share your favourite pics and help us secure stronger nature laws.

Right now, the NSW Government is rewriting our state's nature laws. These laws could determine what happens to the places we love over the next decades.

Our state's nature laws are failing. According to government data, more than 66,000 hectares of native trees and habitat are destroyed in NSW each year – pushing species like the koala, greater glider, and glossy black cockatoos closer to extinction. 

The NSW Labor Government came to power promising to stop excess land clearing and strengthen environmental protections - yet, we're still waiting for them to act.

We have a once-in-a-decade chance to demand a system that genuinely protects nature and threatened species - not the interest of industry, big agriculture and greedy developers. 

Now is your chance to speak directly to decision-makers, and help shape these laws.

Some of the key changes that we think are needed to protect nature include: 

  • Establish a legal objective to achieve no overall loss of nature
  • Ensure environmental outcomes have primacy over intersecting legislation
  • Establish a legal framework that requires Government to proactively identify and protect critical habitat across all land tenures
  • Set clear targets for the protection of all bioregion types across NSW
  • Remove and re-assess approvals granted under previous laws that permit the clearing of over 600,000 hectares on rural lands
  • Simultaneously strengthen rural land clearing laws by introducing protections for regrowth vegetation and removing exemptions that allow broadscale clearing on rural land without ecological assessment.

To secure strong new laws, the Premier and the Environment Minister must understand that protecting nature isn't just the right choice - it's the popular choice.

Add your voice 

Ask the NSW government to make a bold new years resolution to deliver nature laws that immediately stop land clearing and put nature first. 

  1. Upload a photo you love of an area of nature you think should be protected forever.
  2. Include a short message about why it matters to you. 
  3. We’ll turn it into a beautiful printed postcard and deliver it straight to the Premier and Environment Minister. 
Show them what we stand to lose – and why we need strong laws that stop land clearing and over-development. 

If you don’t have a photo - don’t worry – you can still send your message and we’ll use one of our own default postcards. 


 

Did you spend time in nature over summer? Share your favourite pics and help us secure stronger nature laws.

Right now, the NSW Government is rewriting our state's nature laws. These laws could determine what happens to the places we love over the next decades.

Our state's nature laws are failing. According to government data, more than 66,000 hectares of native trees and habitat are destroyed in NSW each year – pushing species like the koala, greater glider, and glossy black cockatoos closer to extinction. 

The NSW Labor Government came to power promising to stop excess land clearing and strengthen environmental protections - yet, we're still waiting for them to act.

We have a once-in-a-decade chance to demand a system that genuinely protects nature and threatened species - not the interest of industry, big agriculture and greedy developers. 

Now is your chance to speak directly to decision-makers, and help shape these laws.

Some of the key changes that we think are needed to protect nature include: 

  • Establish a legal objective to achieve no overall loss of nature
  • Ensure environmental outcomes have primacy over intersecting legislation
  • Establish a legal framework that requires Government to proactively identify and protect critical habitat across all land tenures
  • Set clear targets for the protection of all bioregion types across NSW
  • Remove and re-assess approvals granted under previous laws that permit the clearing of over 600,000 hectares on rural lands
  • Simultaneously strengthen rural land clearing laws by introducing protections for regrowth vegetation and removing exemptions that allow broadscale clearing on rural land without ecological assessment.

To secure strong new laws, the Premier and the Environment Minister must understand that protecting nature isn't just the right choice - it's the popular choice.

Add your voice 

Ask the NSW government to make a bold new years resolution to deliver nature laws that immediately stop land clearing and put nature first. 

  1. Upload a photo you love of an area of nature you think should be protected forever.
  2. Include a short message about why it matters to you. 
  3. We’ll turn it into a beautiful printed postcard and deliver it straight to the Premier and Environment Minister. 
Show them what we stand to lose – and why we need strong laws that stop land clearing and over-development. 

If you don’t have a photo - don’t worry – you can still send your message and we’ll use one of our own default postcards. 


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