I've been having my exam trials corrected by my teacher and she says that I'm going to be marked down because of my sentence structure. Is this true? Like this is a science subject not an english based one.
Hmm... could you provide an example sentence? If your structure is changing the meaning of the sentence that might be why.
What's the difference between the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, the IUCN and Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999?
The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 is
Victorian legislation. Some of the things it does includes:
- Allows declaration of critical habitat
- Includes listing of threatened communities and taxa (this can be different from IUCN and/or federal listings!)
- Applies penalties for undertaking particular actions impacting flora and fauna without a licence
Its aims include:
- conserving Victoria's communities of flora and fauna
- managing threatening processes
- to ensure use of flora and fauna is sustainable
The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 is
federal legislation
(
it's not fit for purpose as it's wayyy too weak + ministerial discretion)
- applies to matters of national environmental significant
- has it's own listing of what species are threatened; if it's not on the list, it's not "a matter of national environmental significance". In the past species have gone extinct before making it onto this list.
- In 2007 it was changed so recovery plans aren't required for threatened species, instead "conservation advices" are required. Conservation advices don't have the legal power of recovery plans so what (can) happen/s now is that the minister in charge can know species will have high risk of extinction if they make a particular decision and go "screw it lol" and just make the decision anyway.
Aims include:
- Conserve Aus biodiveristy
- Control movement of plants and animals, and products derived from wildlife, internationally
- Protect national heritage and biodiversity
- Promote ecologically sustainable development & use of natural resources
- Providing protection for nationally significant
- Provide streamlined assessment and approval process (
e.g. you want to go develop a piece of land, here's your nice easy process. Just buy your offset and you're good to go! Who cares about nature!)
The IUCN is the
international union for conservation of nature (I'm a personally a big fan of them)
- basically they are as they sound - an international group promoting, researching etc. conservation of nature
- one of the things they do is produce the red list of endangered species which is
very highly regarded/reputable.