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Kosciuszko National Park, Brumbies, law and ecological justice
Australian Geographer ( IF 2.672 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-25 , DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2021.1928359
E. Hagis 1 , J. Gillespie 1
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ABSTRACT

The brumby (or feral horse) is an icon of colonial settler Australian culture in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. 2018 saw the introduction of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Bill 2018 (NSW), known as the Brumbies Bill, which cast heritage protections over brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park (KNP). The Brumbies Bill prioritised feral horses over the protection of Alpine Australia, an area which contains a unique ecosystem only present on 0.3% of the Australian landmass. The Bill was highly controversial and directly undermined decades of research into feral horse damage by overturning the pre-existing KNP Horse Management Plan. In this paper we explain the change of policy, an undertaking especially important in the context of debates about the need for more biodiversity protection. We apply a critical legal geography lens, focused on the need to understand how law/s shape places, draw on ideas from ecological justice and introduce the principle of non-regression to this controversial policy reversal. We are especially interested in exposing the processes behind such environmental policy reversals and in unpacking competing perspectives regarding policy formation. We suggest abrupt policy changes are not prudent for a precautionary approach to environmental protection.



中文翻译:

Kosciuszko 国家公园、Brumbies、法律和生态正义

摘要

野马(或野马)是澳大利亚新南威尔士州 (NSW) 雪山地区殖民定居者澳大利亚文化的象征。2018 年出台了 2018 年 Kosciuszko 野马遗产法案(新南威尔士州),即 Brumbies 法案,该法案对 Kosciuszko 国家公园 (KNP) 的 brumbies 进行了遗产保护。Brumbies Bill 将野马置于保护澳大利亚阿尔卑斯山之上,该地区拥有仅占澳大利亚陆地 0.3% 的独特生态系统。该法案引起了极大的争议,并通过推翻先前存在的 KNP 马管理计划直接破坏了数十年来对野马损害的研究。在本文中,我们解释了政策的变化,在有关需要更多生物多样性保护的辩论背景下,这项工作尤其重要。我们运用批判性的法律地理学视角,专注于了解法律如何塑造地方的需要,从生态正义中汲取思想,并将不回归原则引入这一有争议的政策逆转。我们特别有兴趣揭露这种环境政策逆转背后的过程,以及解开有关政策形成的竞争观点。我们建议突然的政策变化对于环境保护的预防性方法是不谨慎的。

更新日期:2021-05-25
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