(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) NSW's new biodiversity legislation will achieve the opposite of what it is trying to do and will accelerate extinction of native flora and fauna rather than arrest its alarming decline, writes Richard Kingsford. OPINION: Between 1998 and 2005 an were killed by destruction of native vegetation in the state of New South Wales. Eastern Australia is among the 11 worst regions of the world for this wilful loss of vital habitat for native flora and fauna - and the only one of them within a developed country, according to a 2015 World Wide Fund for Nature report. The new NSW biodiversity legislation, just passed by parliament, was developed to...
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