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The independent review of Australia's main environment law, released last week, provided a sobering but accurate appraisal of a dire situation.
The review was led by Professor Graeme Samuel and involved consultation with scientists, legal experts, industry and conservation organizations. Samuel's report concluded Australia's biodiversity is in decline and the law (the EPBC Act) "is not fit for current or future environmental challenges".
[...] To reverse Australia's appalling track record of protecting biodiversity, four major reforms recommended by Samuel must be implemented as a package.
- Setting standards [...]
- Greater government accountability [...]
- Decent funding [...]
- Increase ecological knowledge [...]
[...] Samuel recommends Regional Recovery Plans be adequately funded to help develop some knowledge. But we suggest substantial new environmental capacity is needed, including new ecological research positions, increased environmental monitoring infrastructure, and appropriate funding of recovery plans, to ensure enough knowledge supports decision making.
Samuel's report has provided a path forward that could make a substantial difference to Australia's shocking track record of biodiversity conservation and land stewardship.
But Environment Minister Sussan Ley's response so far suggests the Morrison government plans to cherry pick from Samuel's recommendations, and rush through changes without appropriate safeguards.
If the changes we outlined above aren't implemented as a package, our precious natural heritage will continue to decline.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Saturday February 06 2021, @05:38PM (6 children)
Found the ignorant conservative.
The chromosome configuration isn't what determines the sex of the organism. There is only singular characteristic which biologists use to determine sex and that's the size of the gamete - an organism is male if it produces the smaller one and female if it produces the larger one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:25AM (5 children)
So you deny XY and XX chromosome pairs. I think we have found the real science denier.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @04:35AM (2 children)
Every hear of XYYs? or Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @06:00PM (1 child)
That's an incredibly rare genetic defect. Am I wrong to say humans are tetrapods (possessing two arms and two legs) because some unbelievably tiny percentage might be born with the defect of missing one arm? If you hold that standard, then nobody can say anything about humans at all. It's a defect BTW because it prevents the organism from functioning in a basic manner. Same as men who want to put their pee pee in other men instead of in a woman.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday February 08 2021, @01:50AM
Or injury which is far more common. Also, two legs work better for location than one leg.
(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Sunday February 07 2021, @12:28PM (1 child)
Are you unironically retarded? No one is denying sex chromosomes exit, but they aren't used to determine sex in biology.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @05:52PM
For human babies, we merely glance at the genitals to know: vulva = males, penis and scrotum = female.
Are you seriously trying to say it's any more complicated than that? Are you a tranny with an agenda to obfuscate the obvious in order to validate your own mental illness?