This is not only outrageous, but utterly outside the bounds of threatened species legislation procedure. As such it is illegal. I, like hundreds of fellow environmental consultants, are employed, often by developers, to apply threatened species legislation to our client's proposed development, with councils usually being the authority to grant, or not grant consent. I can assure you that clearing 59 hectares of a Critically Endangered Plant Community would never even be dreamt of getting through. Clearing even one hectare would be virtually impossible and the idea not even considered. In fact, it wouldn't even be possible as the ADI site is the last great area where there is even this much woodland left, which makes the ADI site more valuable than much of the remaining areas of Cumberland Plain Woodland left anywhere. Granting permission for this development to go ahead would therefore mean that ANY development on an Endangered Community, all of which would be considered far less significant, should by default be instantly approved and my job, and hundreds like them, would be redundant. Maybe I should start looking for another job straight away since the law now seems irrelevant....

So it seems that not even being 'critically endangered' is enough to save these last precious remnants of bushland. What, do we need a new category called 'OK this is getting serious'? No, what we need is for decision-makers to stop permitting the destruction. But the reality is that, until we get law with real teeth and real disincentives, bushland will keep getting halved and halved and halved until there's no pie left.

This is just pathetic, why don't we have a say? Why is it that developers and the government treat citizens of the West with such contempt.There is ample room to stick the growing poulation in high rise developments along Parramatta Road and other major highway tributaries.Green spaces on the Sydney Plateau should be preserved for future generations; Why is there no vision - why do the planners get the final say? Its just corrupted! This is supposed to be a democratic society - what rubbish! Seriously I have given up trying to make scense of this madness; The St Mary's ADI site could have been the jewel in the West. A tourism bonanza! But no! - crown land sold for a paltry sum to an unsustainable and corrupt developer, who's only brief is too make as much profit for shareholders as possible. What do the west get out of this - jobs...for how long? I would rather a clean environment over jobs anyday.So sad that decisions are left to governments who are just as bad as each other when it comes too the environment.How about nationally not even caring for our water aquifiers, allowing gas seam mining...Folks our money goes overseas...we do not need state of the art hospitals if our environment is clean and our water and food pure - Why sell one to build an artificial other - Why don't governments come out and tell us the truth! Please lets preserve the remaining Cumberland Plains at all costs!

The critically endangered Cumberland Plains Woodland should be protected under The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999! Have a look at this link: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversi... Here is a quote from that webpage: "Both New South Wales and the Commonwealth have listed the Cumberland Plains Woodland as an endangered ecological community under their respective Legislation. A Recovery Plan for this Woodland is being prepared by the NSW Government. Environment Australia, under the Natural Heritage Trust, is supporting a number of projects restoring and rehabilitating these woodlands through Landcare and Bushcare programs and through community groups." There is also a "How can we help?" list on that page with the first point suggesting "limiting access to the Cumberland Plain Woodland by you, your pets, your garden plants, your rubbish and your vehicles." So we TALK about recovery, restoration and rehabilitation, yet our ACTIONS are those of destruction by allowing bulldozers in to destroy 59 hectares! What utter hypocrisy!! Is this some kind of sick joke? What is the point of the EPBC Act and others if this sort of destruction can occur to an endangered ecological community?

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