Land Clearing

25 March 2002

Daly River under threat

ENVIRONMENT CENTRE CALLS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ON CLEARING

Calls for community action on land clearing were made today by the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory. An information flyer covering the current controls on land clearing, the impact of clearing and promoting community participation in Government processes was released today by the Environment Centre.

"We are encouraging informed community participation in the land clearing debate, to ensure the development and implementation of an effective and appropriate regulatory system for landclearing" Jann Crase, Environment Centre of the Northern Territory Landclearing Campaigner said today.

"The release of voluntary guidelines to minimise environmental damage from clearing is a step in the right direction but it is certainly not enough. The NT Government's land clearing policy which is to be released soon, must establish a whole of Territory regulatory system that identifies where clearing can occur and how much can take place."

"We need to regulate land clearing to ensure truly sustainable development that delivers economic, social and environmental benefits to the entire Territory community. This means we need to maintain our biodiversity and ecological processes across landscapes - broad scale land clearing affects our ability to maintain these values," Ms Crase concluded.

For more information on Land Clearing contact ECNT:
Phone: 08 8981 1984
Email: ecnt@octa4.net.au

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