Act for Birds

Our laws must work for nature.

After years of campaigning, Australians have a unique opportunity to reform our outdated federal nature laws.

Current laws have historically failed to tackle the biggest threats to our birds including habitat destruction, climate change, logging and invasive species.

Birds constitute the largest proportion of threatened species in most areas across Australia with one in six facing the threat of extinction. The imminent arrival of H5N1 Bird Flu poses yet another threat, with the potential to decimate many of the nation’s native birds, even species currently regarded as abundant and widespread.

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Our laws must work for nature.

After years of campaigning, Australians have a unique opportunity to reform our outdated federal nature laws.

Current laws have historically failed to tackle the biggest threats to our birds including habitat destruction, climate change, logging and invasive species.

Birds constitute the largest proportion of threatened species in most areas across Australia with one in six facing the threat of extinction. The imminent arrival of H5N1 Bird Flu poses yet another threat, with the potential to decimate many of the nation’s native birds, even species currently regarded as abundant and widespread.

Action from our political leaders is urgently needed to protect iconic and unique birds that are found nowhere else in the world.

We must do everything we can to ensure new nature laws prevent further extinctions and put our precious native birds on the road to recovery.

If you love birds, help save them! Add your voice for strong nature laws.

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On behalf of Australia’s remarkable birdlife, I am calling on you to support strong and lasting nature law reform.

Nearly half of Australia’s birds can be found nowhere else in the world, and one-in-six already faces the threat of extinction.

Habitat destruction, climate change, and the impact of invasive species continue to make the position of Australia’s birds increasingly precarious.

Australia is now facing the imminent arrival of the deadliest strain of avian influenza (bird flu) in decades. The global outbreak has killed millions of birds and other animals around the world with some populations collapsing by 40%.

Reform to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is critical to the Federal Government delivering on national and international commitments to prevent further extinctions and ongoing species decline.

To work for birds, the EPBC Act must: 
1. Establish and deliver national environment standards. 
Legally enforceable national environment standards would set the benchmark for decision making and lay the foundation for a consistent national approach to environmental protection and restoration.

2. Implement a truly independent National Environment Protection Authority 
This is vital in ensuring robust compliance and enforcement, as well as building public confidence in environmental decision-making.

3. Develop and mandate Recovery Plans for all threatened species. 
Recovery Plans are legally binding documents that outline the actions and funding needed to save species however most threatened species are yet to be assigned one.  For those that have them, many are out-dated and no longer fit for purpose. With the ongoing threat of H5N1 bird flu, a commitment to conservation planning reforms is needed to recover bird populations now, more than ever before.

4. Establish Environment Information Australia (EIA) to manage, maintain and centralise data and reporting on species distributions & sightings to scientifically inform decision making processes.

I urge you, as my elected representatives, to support legislation that will deliver strong laws for birds.

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