The role of birders in conservation policy review

["Peter Ewin" <>]

As Paul rightly says, the Native Vegetation Act in NSW covers clearing of 
vegetation for agriculture, and this does include the consideration of the 
Threatened Species Act. And yes there are still issues with the legislation 
(Invasive Native Vegetation and the undertaking of Routine Agraictural 
Management Actions being examples) in my part of the world the 
implementation of Property Vegetation Plans as part of the NVAct assessment 
has significantly decreased the area that has been given approval.
It all comes down to whether you think offsets actually compensate for 
vegetation clearing, but a 10+:1 ratio offset (conservation:clearing) is 
still better than a 1:1 (or as it was in the past no offset and clearing 
went ahead anyway).
Cheers,
Peter


> From: "Paul Burcher" <>
> To: "Graham Turner" <>, "Baus" 
> <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] The role of birders in conservation policy 
> review
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:23:51 +1000
>
> Graham
>
> That's true but the Native Vegetation Act covers that.
>
> Paul Burcher