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Environment, Biodiversity & Natural Heritage

The Greens were founded on the vision of a robust and healthy environment, and that vision continues today. We are working hard to promote environmental values in Parliament and protect our unique wildlife and wild places.

The 2011 State of the Environment report (SoE) shows Australia’s biodiversity on land and sea in alarming decline.

The Greens successfully negotiated the $946 million Biodiversity Fund as part of the Clean Energy Future Package, funding communities to restore bushland and native habitats and reduce the impacts of weeds and feral animals.

The Greens are pursuing reforms to our national environmental laws to urgently protect threatened species and to make sure our iconic areas, like the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, are protected for future generations.

We need environment laws that work to stop the biodiversity crisis, save our threatened species, and protect our precious places.  Sign up to find out more about our work to fix our environment laws.

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Larissa speaks at a Queensland Young Super Network Lunch

15 Nov 2012
Larissa Waters joined members of the Queensland Young Super Network at a lunch to talk about the Greens' views on superannuatio...
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Grazing in NSW Parks the next move from ‘environmental vandals’

14 Nov 2012
Environment Minister Tony Burke must now reverse his plan to hand over federal environmental powers to state governments in lig...
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Doorstop: Christine Milne and Larissa Waters

02 Nov 2012
Christine Milne and Larissa Waters responded to the Federal Government's draft environmental standards to abandon their respons...
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Standards window-dressing for environmental destruction

02 Nov 2012
The standards for environmental approvals released by the ALP Government today will do nothing to prevent the state and territo...
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Larissa Waters takes note of an answer: Australian Government abandons World Heritage

01 Nov 2012
Larissa Waters takes note of an answer to her question in Senate Question Time that demonstrates that the Government, backed to...
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Larissa Waters asks which Federal Environment Powers will be transferred to the States

01 Nov 2012
Larissa Waters asked the Minister representing the Prime Minister to clarify what the Government's position is on transferring ...
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Australian Government Abandons World Heritage Sites

01 Nov 2012
Australia’s World Heritage sites, such as the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and the Franklin River, will be abandoned by the...
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Senate inquiry: protecting threatened species

31 Oct 2012
Larissa Waters just secured a Senate Inquiry into the protection of our threatened species and the record of state governments ...
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Threatened species left to mercy of state governments

31 Oct 2012
Protection of Australia’s threatened and endangered wildlife will be left solely to the pro-mining state governments when...
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Gladstone - Great Barrier Reef Public Meeting

13 Nov 2012 | 6:00 pm
Australian Greens Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters, invites you to a public meeting to discuss the future of our Great Ba...
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