Tougher penalties likely for illegal killing of wildlife
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Victorians who kill or injure native animals could face new fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars after community outcry over the failure of the state’s wildlife protection laws sparked a legal review.
Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio announced the legislation would be overhauled after the deaths of dozens of koalas that were bulldozed at a blue-gum plantation in western Victoria last year, and the shooting and poisoning of hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in Gippsland.
Outdated Victorian environment laws failing wildlife: report
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The killing of hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in Gippsland and the deaths of dozens of koalas during the bulldozing of a plantation are two examples of how Victoriaâs environment laws are failing to protect the stateâs wildlife.
In a report released on Monday by the Humane Society International and Environment Justice Australia, conservationists decry the stateâs outdated laws as being part of the problem facing wildlife rather than a means to protect it.