SIGN E-PETITION OR SEND YOU OWN LETTER TO ACT MINISTERS SIGN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY E-PETITION HERE Email Help protect Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge NOW by sending an email to the ACT Government. Email Minister for the Environment Rebecca Vassarotti and Minister for Planning Mick Gentleman to immediately protect Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge. First Name * Last Name * Email Address * What to say in your email We have got you started below, but add your own thoughts before you send it. Your name will be added to the end of the message. A copy will be sent to you when you click the 'Send message' button. Your message to the Ministers * Rebecca Vassarotti Minister for the Environment Mick Gentleman Minister for Planning and Land Management Dear Ministers Vassarotti and Gentleman, I am writing to call on you to protect the area known as Bluetts Block- Piney Ridge (an area extending across Stromlo Blocks 402 and 403, and Denman Prospect Section 1, Block 12) for its high biodiversity values, and to: 1. Declare the Government's intention to establish the area as a Nature Reserve, and commence the appropriate processes to ensure this happens. 2. Ensure that no further urban development takes place in Denman Prospect Block 12 until a full ecological assessment of the values of this area has been undertaken. 3. Ensure the ecological assessment considers the impacts on threatened species, critically endangered Box-Gum Woodland, old-growth trees, landscape connectivity, and include an assessment of urban edge effects. Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge is an area of high-value, remnant dry forest and Box-Gum Grassy Woodland. It has significant biodiversity and also plays an important role in landscape connectivity from the Murrumbidgee corridor, through to the Molonglo River and north to Black Mountain. The current EIS Exemption application from Capital Estate Developments for Denman Prospect Block 12 does not fully assess the impacts of urban development on high biodiversity areas, nor has there been any consideration of the merits of establishing a buffer between the urban edge and medium-high biodiversity areas. I call on you to reject the current EIS Exemption application for the above reasons, and ensure that the biodiversity values at Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge are protected. Yours sincerely, FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BLUETTS BLOCK-PINEY RIDGE JOIN US to help shape a sustainable future. Twitter First Name * Last Name * Email *
