Environmental biosecurity – the protection of our natural environment from harmful exotic weeds, pests and diseases – requires much more attention than it currently receives.
At a time when all research tells us Australia is fast losing native species, we really must do better.
That is why we have launched ‘Keeping Nature Safe’, a proposal for the establishment of Environment Health Australia, a national body dedicated to environmental biosecurity.
Quarantine and biosecurity efforts to protect primary industries like farming and grazing are world class but the environment is currently missing out.
Government knows this. It is time to give the environment the same level of protection we give to agriculture.
Stinting on environmental biosecurity investment now is a false economy. It leaves an ever-growing debt for future generations to pay. Once we allow them to enter and establish, new weeds, pests and diseases cost buckets of money to control