Habitat

• The government’s decision to approve this loss shows a continuing disregard for nature, cultural heritage and the legacy our descendants will inherit.
• The battle to protect Binybara – as it is known to its Traditional Owners – has galvanised the local community.
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  97% of Australians want more action to stop extinctions and 72% want extra spending on the environment

What’s at stake?

• The shoreline near the proposed housing is a globally significant site on the flyway of many shorebirds that migrate from eastern Asia to Australia each year.
• These birds face threats from habitat loss and degradation across their range.
• The project’s environmental impact statement acknowledged it would also have a significant impact on another endangered species, the black-footed tree-rat.
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A deep cultural significance

• The Larrakia people’s deep and rich cultural ties to this area stretch back millennia.
• The birdlife, from the migrating shorebirds to the owls, kites, eagles and Gouldian finches, is integral to the ecosystems and to the cultural fabric and story of this place.
• Erythrophleum chlorostachys (delenyng-gwa) leaves are used for smoking ceremonies and the inner bark for medicine to treat sores and deep wounds.
• They ask for a management plan to protect their cultural heritage to be developed with their input and that of experts and Darwin locals who value this place.

A(nother) failure of national environment law

• What those offsets are – or whether they are even possible – is not yet known.
• By the time the difficulty of finding a suitable offset site becomes clear, it is often too late – the habitat is gone.
• The case of Binybara exemplifies many of the failings of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act identified by the Samuel review.
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  John Woinarski receives has received funding from the Australian government's National Environmental Science Program.

• The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has won Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Investment Award for ESG investment initiative of the year in Latin America for the second consecutive year.
• Disclaimer: Awards may not be representative of any one client’s experience and are not indicative of the future performance of the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, LLC or BTG Pactual.
• The EF Sustainable Investment Awards are issued by Environmental Finance, an online news and analysis service that reports on sustainable investment, green finance, and environmental markets.
• However, TIG did pay a fee to Environmental Finance in connection with publishing an announcement of the award and award redistribution rights.

• Participants even received on-the-spot assistance to submit or start an application to purchase a home with Habitat LA.
• The company has committed $100,000 to fund programming geared towards advancing Black homeownership.
• “Additionally, as a Board Member of Habitat LA, I look forward to elevating the organization’s meaningful work to ensure that Los Angeles families know about the helpful homeownership resources available at Habitat LA.”
  Habitat LA is committed to increasing homeownership opportunities and addressing the racial and systemic bias that has stymied access to homeownership for generations.
• We are grateful to have had tremendous support from Ring to mobilize our commitment to advancing Black homeownership in greater Los Angeles.

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