In the two weeks since Christine Milne and I launched our national campaign, Too Precious To Lose, hundreds of you have joined us by nominating the place or the species that you consider unique and precious and are working to protect.
The message is clear: Australians love our environment and want to see it protected.
Our national environmental laws are failing us. Every year we lose more precious habitat, forests, grasslands and marine wilderness. The number of threatened species has nearly tripled in the last twenty years. At a time when our environment is under threat like never before thanks to the short-sighted greed of the resources boom, we really need to be strengthening these laws to better protect places and creatures that are too precious to lose.
But, instead of that, the mining lobby has convinced the ALP and the Coalition to trash our environmental laws, and handball almost all of the federal Environment Minister’s approval powers to state governments. If states were in charge, they would have dammed the Franklin and put oil rigs in the Great Barrier Reef. Right now, Tasmania is planning tin mining for the Tarkine, Victoria is about to log their state emblem – the Leadbeater’s Possum – to extinction, and NSW will open National Parks to shooting.
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• Leader of the Australia Greens, Senator Christine Milne, delivered a keynote speech to the Greens National Conference in Sydney, and … addressed the press at a press conference afterwards.Senator Larissa Waters also delivered a speech at the National Conference outlining the Federal Greens’ Too Precious to Lose’ campaign, to protect our precious natural environments under threat from weakening environmental laws and damaging developments.
Follow link to the audio files:
http://greensmps.org.au/content/audio/greens-national-conference-keynote-speech-and-and-press-conference
