Title: Strategy for Nature 2024-2030: Australia's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
Australia's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan provides a framework for government, non-government, and community actions to protect and restore biodiversity nationally. It supports Australia’s commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The report details how pollution can have significant effects on both human health and the environment, including by contaminating water sources, harming wildlife, and disrupting ecosystems. In Australia, sustainable management of pesticides will in future focus on monitoring pesticide releases, assessing the risks, and promoting safer alternatives to pesticides to minimise environmental harm. This new target reflects an Australian commitment to robust environmental management of pesticides to reduce pollution and its risks. In a first for Australian national policies, pollution from pesticides and herbicides has been acknowledged to be driving ecosystem change. The cumulative effects of pesticide pollution of Australia has left a lasting impact on many of the nation's natural systems, the strategy report claims.
Target 8: Reduce pesticide pollution of Australia’s environment and the impacts of pesticide pollution on biodiversity.
