{"id":18134,"date":"2018-02-28T20:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18134"},"modified":"2024-06-29T05:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:01:41","slug":"save-our-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18134","title":{"rendered":"Save Our Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Save_Our_Habitat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18135\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Save_Our_Habitat-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Save Our Habitat\" width=\"769\" height=\"769\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s national environment laws are a laughing stock. They don\u2019t work. Nature is in decline and the Australian Government seems to have little interest in fixing the problem.<br \/>\nOver the past month, The Guardian has published a damning series of important articles revealing the complete breakdown of Australia\u2019s environment laws and a total lack of care by the Turnbull Government.1 Old growth forests are being logged, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and woodlands are being cleared, and action to protect endangered and threatened species is either not happening or is woefully inadequate.<br \/>\nCase in point is the farcical draft National Strategy for Nature which experts have called a \u201cglobal embarrassment\u201d.<br \/>\nThe government quietly released the strategy before Christmas. The new plan scraps targets for protecting the environment. It doesn&#8217;t even mention new nature laws or the need for an independent watchdog.<br \/>\nIt is time to get angry, to get vocal and to get active.<br \/>\nThe draft National Strategy for Nature is open for public submissions for another three weeks. Your voice matters\u2014so make sure it\u2019s heard.<br \/>\nClick here to send a quick email to the government telling it that Australia needs a real plan for nature. https:\/\/www.wilderness.org.au\/campaigns\/tell-malcolm-australias-nature-needs-real-plan<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve got until 16 March to send a powerful and clear message: this national strategy doesn\u2019t cut it, and the government needs to go back to the drawing board.<br \/>\nNational environment laws shouldn\u2019t be about ticking off big developments, like they are now. They should be about making wildlife safe from extinction, and protecting nature from the chainsaws and the bulldozers.<br \/>\nThis is what I qwrote:<br \/>\nThe lack of a master plan for protecting our natural habitat is contributing to a colossal failure to create a desirable future for our children.<br \/>\nCriminals are irresponsible, short-sighted and cannot conceive consequences.<br \/>\nOne could argue that irresponsible, short sighted actions that do not contribute to an improved environment are criminally negligent.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be criminally negligent with our children&#8217;s future!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilderness.org.au\/campaigns\/tell-malcolm-australias-nature-needs-real-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.wilderness.org.au\/campaigns\/tell-malcolm-australias-nature-needs-real-plan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s national environment laws are a laughing stock. They don\u2019t work. Nature is in decline and the Australian Government seems to have little interest in fixing the problem. Over the past month, The Guardian has published a damning series of important articles revealing the complete breakdown of Australia\u2019s environment laws and a total lack of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Save Our Habitat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51540,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions\/51540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}