NELA submission: Senate Inquiry into Australia's Fauna and Flora Extinction Crisis

NELA makes the following submissions:
● Australia’s environmental laws are beyond the need for tinkering. Rather, they require urgent, holistic and transformative change;
● There is a strong case for environmental law reform to happen at the national scale, even though there is also a need for law reform at the state and territory scale to effectively address the issue of species extinctions; and
● Including flora extinctions in this Inquiry broadens the opportunity to take a national stance on the role of native vegetation clearing and historical exemptions of Regional Forest Agreements from national environmental oversight – not just as drivers of biodiversity loss and flora and fauna extinctions, but also as activities that undermine Australia’s capacity to meet its climate targets in a cost-effective and biodiversity-positive way.