Save Scullin's habitat trees and protect other native trees with hollows across the ACT for the future

Subject:
Save Scullin's habitat trees and protect other native trees with hollows across the ACT for the future
Eligibility:
Residents of ACT
Sponsoring member:
Clay, Jo
Principal petitioner:
No. of Signatures:
28
Posting Date:
Tabled:
2/11/2023
Referred to Minister:
2/11/2023
Responded to:
Yes
 
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Information about the Principal Petitioner is available through the sponsoring Member of the Legislative Assembly's office
TO: The Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly
Reason for this Petition

This petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly that the Scullin Community Group and local residents are working to urgently stop the removal of a number of native trees with hollows on a development site slated for Frewin Place, Scullin. The purpose of this campaign is not to oppose the development of community housing on this site. We oppose the approvals to clear mature native eucalypt habitat trees, full of hollows recently used for nesting by native birds including eastern rosellas and gang gang cockatoos.

Requested Actions

Your petitioners, therefore, request the Assembly to call upon the ACT Government to do two things:
1. Withdraw the approval to remove the three Scullin habitat trees, and
2. Amend the development approval process so that native trees with active habitat hollows cannot be approved for removal and other hollows in Canberra are protected too.