The Coastwatchers Association Inc

Time 2020-11-03 22:06:13

Web Name: The Coastwatchers Association Inc

WebSite: http://www.coastwatchers.org.au

ID:104008

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The Coastwatchers Association Incorporated is the leading community environmental and conservation group serving the South Coast of NSW, principally in the Shire of Eurobodalla between Narooma and Batemans Bay.Welcome to our website. We aim to provide information and resources in this website such that it can be used as a significant community resource. We welcome comments or suggested improvements (click the envelope icon on the right to email).Use the menu above to navigate our site, or scroll down to see the latest additions to our site.Our recently amended environmental regulations in NSW are already quite relaxed and have resulted in a 13 fold increase in land clearing.lt is very rare that developments are blocked or significantly slowed because of these regulations. And if they are slowed or blocked, it is because there is a real risk that threatened species and their habitat are likely to be significantly impacted and thus some mitigation is required to protect them.Suggesting that we remove these biodiversity safeguards (referred to as biodiversity constraints by the Mayor), in the wake of the worst ecological disaster the region has experienced, is both negligent and short-sighted.We need to consider the impacts of our developments now more than ever, particularly because there has already been a rush to illegally clear land around houses after the fires. People are taking liberties with land clearing because of the smoke screen of the fires.We need to be more diligent with our environmental compliance now, than ever before.We also need to give our native species the best chance they have to recover. And this is most important at the urban/bushland interface. Burnt areas are not effectively cleared as the Mayor claims, they have the potential to recover, as evidenced by what we see around us now, and will once again provide important wildlife habitat.Furthermore, suggesting that we do not rebuild to current bushfire management standards will only leave the land owner at risk when the next bushfire occurs.Bushfire management standards are there to try and mitigate the risks of bushfires impacting properties and people. We need to build more defendable and fire resistant homes if we want to live in one of the most beautiful but fireprone regions of the world.I understand that these constraints can be costly to recovering land owners. So instead of rewriting the laws, causing further impacts to the environment and ignoring the risk of future fires, why doesn t the Mayor ask the government to provide grants to landowners looking to rebuild to a higher level of bushfire protection. Grants to help pay for the relevant consultants reports and counciI fees.Or provide additional resources to local councils and government departments to help speed up the processing of development applications. There are plenty of better solutions than simply switching off the only piece of legislation that protects our wildlife.

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