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ENVS 818 Environmental Planning - Macquarie University

   

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Executive summaryThe biodiversity of Australia is under threat from different directions with a human being interference with the ecosystems being the main threat. The threat on biodiversity prompted the government to design a strategy to help conserve the biodiversity of the country. The strategy is referred to as the Australia`s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010-2030. This strategy was launched in the year 2010 and its used by the government as the guiding framework for governments to conserve the biodiversity of the country. The strategy outlines the current state ofbiodiversity in the country and identifies the main priorities for conservation (Schoonjans, & luttik, 2014). The strategy is able to identify the factors that pose danger to biodiversity. Apart from the strategy which is a major part of the government policies towards protecting biodiversity, one of these policies is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999(EPBC Act).This is the main piece of environmental legislation in Australia. This legislation helps to manage and protect the countries` Flora and Fauna as well as ecological communities. The EPBC Act has addressed various environmental issues and concerns (Macdonald & Willis, 2013). Most of these concerns are those related to biodiversity. The legislation has a variety of objectives which include; promotion of sustainable development of the ecological systems, protection of national heritage, protection of biodiversity internationally by ensuring the movement of wildlife is controlled. The Act also ensures that the biodiversity of Australia is protected. The EPBC Act became law in June 2013 to make water resources a matter of national environmental significance.

This assessment identifies the threatened species and the ecological communities and lists them. The Act also provides for the development of advice on conservation and formulating recovery plans for listed species. The Act also provides for research to help recognize the major processes and elements that are becoming a threat to biodiversity. IntroductionThis paper also defines the key issues in the study and summarizes the history and the need for a development of the biodiversity protection. The paper also outlines the aims and objectives of the policies and how they have helped to contain the situation and to protect biodiversity in the country. The report also contains a detailed critical review of the policies that have been put in place to protect biodiversity. The final part of the report contains recommendations and a brief conclusion to give a general summary of the issues that have been identified in the study.This report analyzes the biodiversity policies in Australia. The report discusses the policies that the government has put in place to protect biodiversity. Biodiversity can generally be described as the variability of life on the earth. United Nations Environment Program describes biodiversity as a measure of variation at eh genetic level, species and ecosystems level. This report, therefore, evaluates the policies and programs that have been put in place to help protect, ecosystems, genetics, and species in Australia. Definition of key issuesThe issues that this report seeks to evaluate include the policies that the government of Australia has been able to design in order to facilitate and support bio-banking. Biodiversity banking and

offset scheme under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 was started in August 2017(Ansell, Gibson & salt, 2016). The aim of this legislation was to address the loss of biodiversity values due to degradation of habitats. Biodiversity banking is a market-based scheme that provides a streamlined biodiversity assessment process that enables a rigorous scheme that helps owners of land to get income by managing land for conservation (Australian biological resources study, 2010). This works by generating biodiversity credits by landowners who commit themselves to protecting values of biodiversity on their own land by signing the bio banking agreement. The credits generated over time can be sold to generate money to help manage their land. An ecological community is a natural group of plants, animals and other organisms which are native interact with the unique natural habitat. Types of ecological communities include;forests, wetlands, marine, woodlands, grasslands, ground springs and cave communities. Native plants and animals in an ecological community play different roles and they interact differently to contribute to a healthy environment. The functioning of these contributes to the better productivity of land and water which benefits the society in general.History of biodiversity and the need for its developmentBiodiversity has been a subject of discussion in the environment circles over the years. The concept of biodiversity was conceived by Walter Rosen of the National Academy of Science (NAS) in the year 1985. During this period, there was a great concern for conservation both among the scientist and the society in general. This resulted in the formation of the society for conservation Biology (SCB) in the year 1985. In the year 1987, the society published the first journal of titled Conservation Biology (Lindenmayer & Gibbons, 2012). The biodiversity is unevenly distributed throughout the earth and its rich in the tropical areas. The latitude gradients of places also determine the biodiversity of a place. Marine biodiversity is high among coastlines

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