{"id":352115,"date":"2026-06-26T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/australias-nature-is-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:40:50","slug":"australias-nature-is-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=352115","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s nature is in trouble."},"content":{"rendered":"


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Australia\u2019s new environmental standards are supposed to protect wildlife. Right now, they don\u2019t.<\/h2>\n

We have one of the worst mammal extinction rates in the world. We\u2019ve already lost 39 species<\/a>, including the Christmas Island Shrew and the desert rat-kangaroo, while iconic species like the Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Pygmy blue whale and Swift Parrot continue to slide towards extinction. Forests are still being bulldozed at an alarming rate. Rivers and reefs are under serious pressure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pygmy Blue Whales continue to slide towards extinction<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Tiffany Klein \/ Greenpeace<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fixing this sorry state of affairs was why the Federal Government promised to fix Australia\u2019s broken national nature laws\u2014a promise that culminated in the nature law reforms passed late last year.<\/p>\n

A big part of these reforms is the creation of\u00a0new \u201cNational Environmental Standards\u201d \u2014 rules intended to guide decisions on projects that could damage nature.<\/p>\n

But the Government\u2019s latest draft standards\u2014open for consultation until May 29th<\/a>\u2014fall dangerously short.<\/p>\n

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It just takes a few minutes<\/p>\n

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Instead of setting clear environmental guardrails, the draft rules risk making it easier for damaging projects to get approved, while nature continues to decline. Legal experts are warning<\/a> that unless the standards are changed, they could weaken protections rather than strengthen them.<\/p>\n

So what are these standards, exactly?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The new standards are a centrepiece of major reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act), which were passed late last year and are designed to fix a broken environmental regulatory system. They are meant to set clear rules for what environmental protection should actually look like.<\/p>\n

In simple terms, they\u2019re supposed to answer questions like:<\/p>\n