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  Submission: Tasmania's Threatened Species Strategy Review

  Dec 12, 2023

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  Tasmania's Threatened Species Strategy Review

  December 2023

   

  Tasmania, as with mainland Australia, is in an extinction crisis. Over the next few decades, climate change will compound and exacerbate existing threats to our threatened species, and we will see a rapid increase in species extinctions. Further, there are already species that were once common that are currently experiencing rapidly decreasing populations. Tasmania currently has 700 listed threatened species, but this number is likely to increase substantially in the near future. 

  If the Tasmanian government is serious about protecting threatened species, then we need to see extensive legislation change, substantial investment and action. As such, we think a stronger Vision statement for the strategy is needed, one that commits to strong action, such as that of “No New Extinctions” adopted by the Federal Government. We must prioritise reversing species’ decreases, rather than merely minimising them.

   

  Read the Submission below:

  Tasmania’s Threatened Species Strategy

  Tags: #Biodiversity

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