EDO has been making recommendations for strong biodiversity, native vegetation and land management laws since 1995.

This group of submissions made over 200 recommendations on the regulations and other instruments that were implemented to support the NSW Government’s biodiversity and land clearing law reform package passed in 2016 (for background, see our page on the 2016 package here).

Since then, EDO has raised a number of key concerns that were not addressed in the 2016 changes in the following 9 submissions, which you may download combined or read each component separately:

COMBINED – Submissions on the NSW biodiversity and land management reformsDownload
Submission on the draft Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017Download
Submission on the draft Local Land Services Amendment (Land Management—Native Vegetation) Regulation 2017Download
Submission on the draft Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Biodiversity Conservation) Regulation 2017Download
Submission on the Explanation of Intended Effect for the State Environmental Planning Policy (Vegetation) 2017Download
Submission on the Land Management (Native Vegetation) CodeDownload
Submission on the Biodiversity Assessment Method (BAM)Download
Submission on the Accreditation Scheme for the Application of the Biodiversity Assessment MethodDownload
Submission on the Serious and Irreversible Impacts GuidanceDownload
Submission on the Offsets Payment CalculatorDownload