This property was purchased with National Reserve System funding – will they pay it back? One risk in putting effort and funding into private protected areas!
Environment Minister Tony Burke has been forced to back down on attempts to extend federal powers over national parks after cabinet rejected the move on Monday night. Mr Burke had been considering ways to extend oversight of parks under national environment law after his vocal attacks on Coalition state government-led grazing, shooting and logging projects in national parks. One option had been to back or replicate a Greens amendment in the Senate to create a national parks ”trigger” under federal…
Queensland government opens up common resources to private interests.
What is happening in Australia? See the new article in “The Conversation” by some leading scientists: “Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks.” Photo below is on the border of Homevale National Park ( the park in the foreground, a private grazing enterprise over the fence. Notice the difference between grazed and ungrazed, even in a good season. In the heavily grazed paddock, there is no seeding grass for the many species of small birds who rely…
Qld’s national parks cattle grazing laws ‘disastrous’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).