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Baby Koala
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Excerpt from this story from Mother Jones:
A plan to build up to 73,000 houses in new suburbs in western Sydney relies on conservation promises that might not be delivered until decades into the future, environment groups say.
The New South Wales government recently approved the Cumberland Plain conservation plan, a major planning policy that will guide the development of four new urban growth areas from Penrith to Wilton, including the western Sydney Aerotropolis. But critics say it will turn the already overcleared Cumberland Plain into a “sea of roofs, concrete and asphalt” and destroy critically endangered habitat for Sydney’s last koala populations.
“It seeks to authorize the destruction of some of our most threatened animal and plant communities now, for promised but unproven future environmental gains,” Nicola Beynon, the head of campaigns at Humane Society International Australia, said. “The Cumberland Plain conservation plan demonstrates the flaws in our current environmental laws.”
The plan acknowledges that offset targets may be difficult to meet, and acquiring and protecting the necessary land could take 15 to 20 years.
The National Parks Association of NSW is calling on the federal environment and water minister, Tanya Plibersek, to reject the “deeply flawed” plan, which would see 11,000 hectares (27,000 acres) of land developed for new housing and roads up to 2056. It proposes clearing 1,754 hectares of native woodlands and grasslands, including critically endangered Cumberland Plain woodland and shale sandstone transition forest. Beynon said that if approved, the plan would allow for the destruction of more than 500 hectares of critically endangered habitat.
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Wild animalzzzzz!!!!
Tbh, I wish lpstubers would use other species besides dogs and cats more often. Dont get me wrong, I love the cats and dogs (especially the Great Danes), but I feel like other species like have so much character potential too
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