Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia's conservation law actually works | Atticus Fleming and Andrew Macintosh

The highest priority must be to ensure land-clearing is properly regulated to save our native forestsSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton's free Clear Air newsletter hereAustralia's parliament will soon consider proposed reforms to federal environmental laws - known as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Unfortunately, signals from the government suggest this may be another reform process that fails to deliver the progress we need - despite everyone agreeing that Australia's biodiversity is in catastrophic decline.When introduced, the EPBC Act was a historic reform by a conservative government. For the first time since federation, the Australian parliament exercised its full suite of constitutional powers to regulate environmentally harmful actions on all tenures.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton's Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...