Senate debates
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
Wedge-Tailed Eagle
3:48 pm
Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes a study by the University of Melbourne and Forestry Tasmania which estimates that the threat of extinction of the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle in north east Tasmania rises from 65 per cent to 99 per cent if current logging plans go ahead; and
- (b)
- calls on the Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments to address this finding by altering the proposed logging so that the eagle’s prospects of survival are improved rather than worsened.
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