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Submission to Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry Into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria LC EPC Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria Submission 605 SUBMISSION TO VICTORIAN PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY INTO ECOSYSTEM DECLINE IN VICTORIA 29 AUGUST 2020 CONTACT: [email protected] 1 of 35 LC EPC Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria Submission 605 Contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Who we are ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Our submission ........................................................................................................................................ 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ 4 Recommendations .................................................................................................................................. 6 BIODIVERSITY LOSS ................................................................................................................................. 7 The drivers of biodiversity loss ................................................................................................................ 7 Commercial exploitation and shooting as a driver of biodiversity loss .................................................. 8 Biodiversity loss in Victoria ..................................................................................................................... 8 Biodiversity Loss-Impact on Macropods ................................................................................................. 8 The importance of “common species” .................................................................................................... 9 LEGAL FRAMEWORK GOVERNING WILDLIFE IN VICTORIA .................................................................... 10 Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 ................................................................................................... 11 The Wildlife Act 1975 ............................................................................................................................ 11 “Sustainable use” .................................................................................................................................. 20 KANGAROO KILLING IN AUSTRALIA....................................................................................................... 12 The history of kangaroo killing in Australia ........................................................................................... 12 Kangaroos as pest animals .................................................................................................................... 13 “Overabundance”.................................................................................................................................. 14 KANGAROO KILLING IN VICTORIA ......................................................................................................... 15 The ATCW permit system ...................................................................................................................... 15 The scale of the killing ........................................................................................................................... 15 Significant issues with the administration and operation of the ATCW permit system ....................... 16 Structural failures in the design and operation of the Wildlife Act ...................................................... 16 Failures of governance .......................................................................................................................... 17 Failures of implementation ................................................................................................................... 18 The commercial kangaroo meat and skins industry ............................................................................. 18 The development of the commercial kangaroo meat and skins industry In Victoria ........................... 19 The Kangaroo Pet Food Trial 2014-2019 ............................................................................................... 19 Fraud and overshooting in the KPFT ..................................................................................................... 19 Victorian Kangaroo Harvest Management Plan .................................................................................... 20 “Sustainable use” under the Wildlife Act .............................................................................................. 20 FUTURE THREATS TO KANGAROO POPULATIONS ................................................................................ 21 Kangaroos and Climate change ............................................................................................................. 21 CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................................... 21 2 of 35 LC EPC Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria Submission 605 INTRODUCTION Who we are The Australian Society for Kangaroos (“ASK”) is the leading advocate for all species of kangaroos and wallabies in Australia. ASK seeks to: • Dispel the misconceptions that have led to the ongoing mass destruction of macropod species across Australia; • Protect kangaroos and other macropods from the unrelenting slaughter that occurs across Australia; • Highlight the unnecessary suffering, killing, orphaning caused by the ongoing mass slaughter of kangaroos and other macropods. ASK contends that Australia’s brutal treatment of its kangaroos diminishes Australia as a nation and rightly calls into question Australia’s willingness and ability to meet its international and moral responsibilities to protect its unique wildlife, particularly at a time of biodiversity loss and the impacts of climate change, drought and unprecedented bushfires are having a devastating impact on Australia’s kangaroo populations. Our submission The Australian Society for Kangaroos is grateful for the opportunity to make a submission to the Victorian Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee’s Inquiry into ecosystem decline in Victoria (“the Inquiry”). In this submission, we have directed our comments and submissions to the Inquiry’s terms of reference including: • The extent of the decline in Victoria’s biodiversity • The adequacy of the legislative framework protecting Victoria’s environment and ecosystems • The adequacy and effectiveness of government programs • Opportunities to restore the environment In this report we focus on the fragmentation of Victoria’s biodiversity laws and the inconsistencies in the current legislative framework. We explore why those laws have failed to provide effective protection for “common species” of wildlife and how that is contributing biodiversity loss in Victoria. We highlight how, at a time when Victoria is facing a looming extinction crisis, S28A of the Wildlife Act and the ATCW permit system operates to facilitate the industrial scale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of healthy wild animals and birds across Victoria every year by farmers and landholders and a permanent kangaroo meat and skins industry. We are, of course, happy to provide further submissions and the evidence including references and research materials relied on, if required. 3 of 35 LC EPC Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria Submission 605 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There is overwhelming scientific evidence of significant biodiversity loss and decline across the world and that these losses are accelerating with the rapidly accumulating impacts of climate change (IPCC report 2018, WWF report 2018, IPBES report 2019, IPCC report 2019). Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and the numbers of threatened species (Senate Inquiry into Faunal Extinction Crisis interim report 2019). Victoria, of all the states, has long had the worst record on land clearing, ecosystem destruction and biodiversity loss (Victorian State of the Environment Report 2018). The causes and drivers of ecological loss and decline such as habitat loss and invasive species are well known and well documented. It is of significance, however, that while all of the UN and other international reports and research identify commercial exploitation, hunting and shooting as one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss, this issue has been completely ignored in the analysis of and reports on biodiversity loss in Australia. This is so despite indisputable historical evidence that government sponsored eradication programs, bounties and the fur trade have had a devastating impact on Australia’s wild animals and bird populations, causing a number of species extinctions and driving many other species to the brink. This is also so despite the fact that Australia is home to the largest slaughter of terrestrial wildlife on the planet and a major participant in the international wildlife trade through its support of the commercial kangaroo meat and skins industry and operates large scale state- based permit systems that allow landholders to kill hundreds of thousands of healthy wild animals and birds every year in the name of agricultural “damage mitigation”. One explanation for this “blind spot” is that for over two centuries, the rural sector (with the support of Federal and state governments)
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