A message from the Nature Conservation Council of NSW
Dear Members,
As you may have seen in the news, at the Nature Conservation Council we’ve just released a new report into biodiversity offsetting schemes in NSW. The report, titled ‘Paradise Lost: The weakening and widening of NSW Biodiversity offsetting schemes, 2005-2016’ is a thorough analysis of existing offsetting schemes and an assessment of how they do (and usually don’t) meet best practice standards, putting nature at risk.
We got a powerful story in the Sydney Morning Herald as you may have seen, and on NBN TV news.
The report makes a list of useful recommendations and a range of case studies from across NSW. We hope that it will be of use to you in your campaigns and work to protect nature.
If you would like to share the report on facebook to spread the message here is some draft wording to help:
Breaking: new report reveals biodiversity offsets are adding to wildlife extinctions, not preventing them.
“It’s a crude mechanism for letting developers kill threatened species while claiming they are good environmental stewards,” council chief executive Kate Smolski said. “It’s a bad joke.”
Thank you for your ongoing work to protect our fragile environment,
Regards,
Daisy.
Daisy Barham
Campaigns Director
Nature Conservation Council of NSW
m: 040 2335 664 | e: dbarham@nature.org.au
