URGENT CALL FOR FEDERAL ACTION ON NT NATURE 

Our Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has the power to stop bulldozers destroying Country.  

Right now, bulldozers are destroying irreplaceable tropical savanna ecosystems across the Northern Territory. 

This year, more than 25,000 hectares of native vegetation has already been approved for bulldozing in the Territory without any federal oversight. 

And the Finocchiaro Government, through its Pastoral Land Board, is set to approve the bulldozing of almost 46,000 hectares of native vegetation by the year's end. 

That's equivalent to clearing 23,000 MCG football fields annually. 

A recent example is Claravale Station near the banks of the Daly River. In June, the Pastoral Land Board approved a permit to clear nearly 3300 hectares of vegetation at Claravale, where there is one of only six confirmed maternity roosts for ghost bats in the whole of the Territory. 

In total, the past and proposed clearing actions at Claravale add up to nearly 7000ha, equal to almost 3500 MCG playing fields. 

These unscrutinised acts of habitat destruction could have significant impacts on threatened species and regional biodiversity. The Daly region is already one of the most cleared regions in the Northern Territory. 

We’re calling on Minister Watt to urgently reform our federal nature laws to fix a broken system and ensure that proposals at Claravale and beyond are given proper scrutiny.