Ineffective environmental offset programs are sending threatened and endangered species to the brink of extinction, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
A study into environmental offset schemes found they had "failed to deliver outcomes promised by developers of mines and other major projects."
As the story notes: "Of eight case studies where the destruction of habitat was permitted in exchange for protection elsewhere, the results of two studies were found to be "adequate", and five others "poor", according to the Nature Conservation Council, which compiled the report. For the Boggabri/Maules Creek area, which has two huge open-cut coal mines, the outcome was found to be "disastrous".
As offsets are failing, it's time for the NSW Government to put our precious native animals first by protecting critical habitats over environmental offsets that favour developers and miners but don't deliver conservation results.
It's time for the NSW Government to change the parameters of the program. No more selling off the habitat of threatened and endangered species - SAVE THEIR HABITATS INSTEAD!
Please sign the petition and tell the NSW Government to save the habitat of threatened and endangered species - no selling them off for useless environmental offsets!
