Consultation Paper Released on Native Vegetation Clearing

Posted on 21 September, 2012 by Connecting Country

DSE has recently released a consultation paper entitled Future directions for native vegetation in Victoria: Review of Victoria’s native vegetation permitted clearing regulations. From an environmental, social and agricultural perspective, this report is important. Its overall context is a review of the current Victorian native vegetation policy. Specific attention is given to the efficiency and effectiveness of vegetation clearing regulations.

Stakeholders and the community are invited to provide feedback about:

issues identified with the current permitted clearing regulations
the four priority reforms and five supporting reforms proposed to address these issues
Issues related to implementing the proposed reforms.

Details for submitting feedback are published here. The closing date for submissions is 19 October 2012.