The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has announced the party’s biodiversity protection strategy:
TO PROTECT CANBERRA’S BIODIVERSITY, THE ACT GREENS WILL…
— Ensure a new Nature Conservation Act is passed by the end of 2013
— Merge all ACT Government Biodiversity services into a single unit
— Develop an open and transparent ACT biodiversity policy
— Require the Commonwealth to have final sign-off on all environmentally-significant development
— Protect Kinlyside and Throsby
— Strengthen the role of the Environment Commissioner
[Images are the ACT Spider Orchid and the endangered Hooded Robin courtesy The Greens]
