Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Centre Alliance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment. On 26 October 2018 I joined local conservation groups in writing to the secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance about the deterioration of the Coorong and Lower Lakes Ramsar site. That letter constituted an article 3.2 notification and requires the government to respond within three months to a detailed questionnaire on what measures have been put in place to rectify the deterioration. Would the minister please advise the House of the government's response?

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Mayo for her question and her keen interest in the Coorong, a vital part of her electorate of Mayo, and indicate that the letter that she refers to was received before I was sworn in as environment minister. The Ramsar Convention, as she notes, is an international convention on the conservation of wetlands, particularly when it comes to the habitat of waterbirds. I am very happy to follow up where that information is and get back to the member.