Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for the Environment, in writing, on 14 July 2014:

(1)    Is it a fact that under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, any action that has the potential to significantly impact a population of a threatened species must be referred to his department for assessment.

(2)    Was the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries’ burning in the

(a) Little Desert National Park,

(b) Lower Glenelg National Park,

(c) Cobboboonee National Park,and

(d) Rennick State Forest, in April 2014 referred to his department for assessment; if not, should it have been, if so, what action will he take.

(3)    Did this burning program include 5000 hectares in the Rennick State Forest, which had a population of 30 to 60 of the south eastern sub-species of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Victoria’s 2006 Commonwealth Games emblem).

(4)    Is there agreement that no more than 15 per cent of the south-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo stringybark habitat should be burnt within a ten year period.

(5)    Did the Victorian Government’s burning program mean that 27 per cent of the south eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo habitat has now been burnt in the last ten years.

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