Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

there have been calls by land owners in the Gwydir Ramsar-listed wetland for it to be de-listed as a Ramsar site because the federal and New South Wales governments have let it die,

(ii)

the World Wide Fund for Nature intends to raise this issue at the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention when it meets in February 2007,

(iii)

the Gwydir wetlands have received little water in 10 years despite promises from state and federal governments to provide water to retain the site’s value, and

(iv)

water to the Gwydir wetland has been reduced by up to 75 per cent; and

(b)

calls on state and federal governments to protect this important wetland site.

Question put.