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The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species
"It would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority species. The cost to reverse the decline of priority species and undo damage done by habitat loss, disease and other threats was estimated at $103.7 billion annually, while getting them off the threatened list entirely would require $157.7 billion per year.”
"Biodiversity loss and ecosystems collapse is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the second most significant global risk over the next decade, with 50 per cent of the global economy dependent on nature. " >>
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2025/02/04/the-cost-of-preventing-extinction-of-australias-priority-species/
Australians spent over $33 billion on their pets last year.
https://www.dogster.com/statistics/pet-spending-statistics-australia
#biodiversity #ecosystems #extinction #risks #wildlife #SettlerSociety #pets #Australia #NaturePositive #values
Griffith News · The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species - Griffith NewsA new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority
138,000+ hectares of koala habitat bulldozed as Albanese fails on new nature laws
"New analysis shows that despite the Albanese government committing to no new extinctions, 138,617 hectares of koala habitat was bulldozed in just one year in Queensland. This forest was bulldozed under the current, weak federal nature laws, leaving the loopholes wide open for further clearing, putting the koala on a fast track to extinction."
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https://www.queenslandconservation.org.au/albanese_fails_nature_koala_habitat_bulldozed
#NaturePositive #laws #koalas #extinction #NSWLogging #Queensland #biodiversity #destruction
Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive’ legislation after intervention by WA premier https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/27/albanese-kills-off-deal-with-greens-to-pass-nature-positive-law-after-intervention-by-wa-premier #auslaw #auspol #naturepositive
The Guardian · Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive’ legislation after intervention by WA premier
Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'
Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems
"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan
"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html
##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
My writeup of the Nature Positive Summit that ocurred in Sydney 8-10 October. I am sure there were positive interactions, but by reports financialisation of nature and biodiversity an important focus. A Talkfest, while the Australian and NSW Governments lacked ambition and were using it to greenwash nature negative activities such as approving new coal mines or logging native forests.
#NaturePositive #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #Sydney #Environment
https://takvera.blogspot.com/2024/10/inaugural-global-nature-positive-summit.html
RT by @EU_ENV: Curious about the fundamentals of biodiversity in business? 
Join the the Biodiversity Basics Webinar on 24 Oct, 14:00-15:00 CEST, to explore biodiversity fundamentals, policy & transformative actions for a #NaturePositive future 
https://europa.eu/!D79NV4
[2024-10-17 10:13 UTC]
Nature conservation is a public good, not a market
"When we consider that the economy is a “wholly owned subsidiary” of the environment, it is simply an absurd proposition to claim government can’t provide the lion’s share of investment required to turn the tide on biodiversity decline...Australia has an opportunity to be a global conservation leader, not a laggard and pariah, we must seize this opportunity". >>
https://360info.org/nature-conservation-is-a-public-good-not-a-market/
#biodiversity #conservation #biodiversity #NaturePositive #harm #PublicBads #law #EPBCAct #governance #nature
360 · Nature conservation is a public good, not a market - 360Private investment in conservation is always welcome but the evidence suggests governments will need to do the heavy lifting when it comes to repairing nature. Leaders from across government, the private sector, research, environment and First Nations peoples are meeting in Sydney this week for the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit. The summit is […]
The Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework:
"Australia should not say that we’ve reached the target because we haven’t."
The government is caving in to polluters and loggers.>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/08/scientists-contest-environment-ministers-claim-of-blitzing-australias-ocean-reserve-expansion-goal
#NaturePositive #Biodiversity #KunmingMontreal #GBF #Australia #NatureNegative #logging #pollution #FossilFuels
The Guardian · Scientists contest environment minister’s claim of ‘blitzing’ Australia’s ocean reserve expansion goal
Another meeting on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
"Australia, the sixth most biodiverse country in the world, has listed 2,224 species and ecological communities as threatened with extinction. These losses are predicted to escalate if we continue business as usual and allow continued decline of ecosystems."
"Despite having pledged to end deforestation by 2030, Australia is the only deforestation hotspot among developed nations. Land clearing continues apace in northern Australia, often without being assessed under national environmental laws. We desperately need to reverse the decline in nature, once and for all."
https://theconversation.com/australia-is-hosting-the-worlds-first-nature-positive-summit-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-236236
#biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #destruction #deforestation #logging #meat #GBF #EPBCAct #NaturePositive #NatureRepair #NatureRepairMarket #ecosystems #collapse #extractivism #extinction
The ConversationAustralia is hosting the world’s first ‘nature positive’ summit. What is it, and why does it matter?As Australia prepares to host the first Global Nature Positive Summit this week, let’s take a closer look at what ‘nature positive’ really means.
Can Australia refrain from nature destruction and actively repair past damage?
Delay is the new denial
To stop nature destruction is "one of the few threats that we actually have complete leverage over as humans. ..But many of the government's efforts on that have been either delayed, flagged for possible watering-down, or blocked in parliament — or a combination of all three."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-08/nature-positive-summit-tanya-plibersek/104432288
#nature #ecosystems #destruction #laws #lobby #agriculture #mining #logging #laws #regulation #failure #NaturePositive #extractivism #governance #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis
ABC News · Tanya Plibersek said Australians 'voted for the environment' in 2022. Two years on, what has she been able to achieve?
Incredible comeback
Nepal's tiger population has tripled since 2009, & 65,000 hectares of degraded land have been reforested, thanks to landscape restoration efforts.
A win for #biodiversity and communities—a #NaturePositive success story!
@UNEP
Will Australia protect the NT savannas?
"Despite the tremendous ecological values of the NT savannas, they are insufficiently protected and increasingly threatened. Against a global backdrop of calls for greater conservation efforts and outcomes, national commitments to a ‘Nature Positive’ economy and no new extinctions, and the critical priority to constrain climate change, the rate and scale of destruction of our savannas is escalating. Our biodiversity—and the fabric, function, health and potential of the land—is being jeopardised."
https://www.ecnt.org.au/the_state_and_future_of_the_northern_territory_s_savannas
#savannas #NT #EPBCAct #conservation #biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #water
Australia’s system of biodiversity offsets
"A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds."
"A review of some of the areas chosen for nature restoration as part of Australia’s biodiversity offset system has found a third are in worse condition than before, prompting fresh warnings that the scheme is increasing the risk of animals going extinct."
"Biodiversity offsetting is a policy used around Australia. The system allows developers to compensate for the environmental damage they cause in one area by pledging work to deliver an equivalent or greater benefit in another."
"The system was allowing places and species to be “continually chipped away at until there is nothing left” Martine Lappan, Australian Conservation Foundation investigator."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/03/australia-biodiversity-offset-system-land-restoration
#BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #offsets #biodiversity #laws #conservation #failure #NaturePositive #koalas #wildlife #extinction makers #Australia
The Guardian · A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds
RT by @EU_ENV: 
Interested in learning about the fundamentals of biodiversity in business?
Join the Biodiversity Basics webinar on 4 July at 14:00 CEST to get up to speed with it and improve relations with nature
Register here https://europa.eu/!D79NV4
#NaturePositive #MakeNatureCount
[2024-07-01 08:18 UTC]
Australia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usual
"Labor promised substantive change that would prevent further species extinctions. But yesterday’s announcement was basically the continuation of business as usual.
Yesterday’s announcement effectively defers substantive change until after the next federal election."
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https://theconversation.com/australias-long-sought-stronger-environmental-laws-just-got-indefinitely-deferred-its-back-to-business-as-usual-228090
#BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #governance #failure
The ConversationAustralia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usualAn end to extinctions. An environmental cop on the beat. Labor promised a great deal on the environment. But yesterday, they backed away from the main challenge.
Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat
"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0
Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144
End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/
"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
Video-Dokumentation "Städtisches Grün als Klima- und Kulturaufgabe"
Im Rahmen des #ArchitekturSommer23 konzipierte Iris Neitmann, Architektin und Vorsitzende der Stiftung #StadtLandKunst, die visuell eindrucksvolle und informative Ausstellung "Städtisches Grün als Klima- und Kulturaufgabe" in der #HafenCity #Hamburg und organisierte eine ebenso gehaltvolle Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema. Wer diese verpasst hat, Ausstellung und Diskussion jetzt via Video nachverfolgen.
Am Anfang des Videos führt Iris Neitmann durch die Ausstellung und erläutert die positiven Wirkungen von Bäumen in der Stadt, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender #Dürreperioden und #Hitzewellen infolge der fortschreitenden #Klimakatastrophe. In diesem Zusammenhang zeigt sei einige gelungene historische und aktuelle Beispiele (die #Alhambra. das #GreenBeltMovement von #WangariMaathai in Kenia, die #Miyawaki-Wälder, eine 7km lange Parkanlage in Valencia), sowie weniger gelungene (HafenCity, Altona).
In den anschließenden Impulsvorträgen hält u.a. #AndreasKipar vom internationalen Architekturbüro LAND (ab 16:20) ein starkes und leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für ein neues Miteinander mit der Natur, für die Einbeziehung von Landschaft und Natur in die #Stadtplanung, für die #Entsiegelung von städtischen Straßen und Plätzen und geht auf positive Beispiele u.a. aus Mailand. Südtirol und dem Tessin ein. Kipar fordert, Grün und öffentlichen Raum nicht mehr nur zu berücksichtigen, sondern an erste Stelle zu rücken. Er geht davon aus, dass wir einen psychologischen #Kipppunkt erreichen, wenn wir anfangen, Städte als urbane Landschaften zu begreifen und fordert in der Tradition von Lucio Fontana und den Ramones ein Aufbrechen versiegelter Straßen und Flächen: "Let's Break it Up!"
Ab 31:31 informiert Marianne Weitershoff, Netzwerk HafenCity e.V. über die Widrigkeiten bei der Umsetzung von mehr Biodiversität in der HafenCity.
In der anschließenden Podiumsdiskussion (ab 39:07) geht es um die Frage, warum die Erkenntnisse, die es seit langem gibt, nicht umgesetzt werden: Gibt es auf Seiten der Entscheidungsträger:innen ein Wissens- oder ein Handlungsproblem? Wer sind die treibenden/blockierenden Akteure im Spannungsfeld Politik - Verwaltung - Zivilgesellschaft? Neben Neitmann und Kipar diskutieren Arne Platzbecker (#MdHB #SPDHH) und Christa Möller-Metzger (#MdHB #GrüneHH) sowie Prof. Antje Stokman von der #HCU.