Protect Bluetts Block as a Nature Reserve - Conservation Council ACT Region

Protect Bluetts Block as a Nature Reserve

Nature in Canberra and Australia is in trouble. The wildlife and the places we love are under threat like never before. Right here in Canberra, Bluetts Block is under threat from development and urgently needs protection as a nature reserve. Bluetts Block provides habitat for the endangered Superb Parrot and Gang-gang Cockatoo along with rare marsupial populations of Dunnart and Antechinus.

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Rebecca Vassarotti Minister for the Environment and Land Management Chris Steel Minister for Planning and Transport Dear Ministers Vassarotti and Steel, 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 EIS Exemption 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 ensure that the biodiversity values at Bluetts Block-Piney Ridge are protected by establishing the area as a nature reserve. Yours sincerely,
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