REGIONAL NRM: "Natural resources management plan 'useless'"

ABC News
3 September 2008

The ACT Conservation Council says a new natural resources management plan for the Territory has no weight because the Government is not obligated to meet its targets.

The ACT Natural Resource Management Council has released a draft plan on the future preservation of natural resources.

The Bush Capital Legacy plan proposes 16 new natural resource management targets for water, biodiversity, land and community.

The Conservation Council's Catherine Potter says the plan is useless unless the Government adopts the targets.

"Unfortunately it doesn't have the teeth that a policy or legislative instrument that came from the ACT Government would have," she said...

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