Stop Robbins Island Wind Farm

Call on Minister Plibersek to protect Robbins Island – critical habitat for birds and devils.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has 30 days to decide the fate of critically endangered birds, migratory species and Tasmanian Devils threatened by the Robbins Island wind farm.

Renewable energy projects should not cost the Earth or its wildlife

Robbins Island sits one kilometre off the coast near Montague in Tasmania’s North West. The 9,900 hectare island sits at the end of one of the busiest migratory bird flyways, making it the worst possible site for what is proposed as the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere.

This is a haven for shorebirds - more shorebirds nest and breed on Robbins Island and the Robbins Passage than the rest of Tasmania combined.

Some of these birds migrate from as far away as Siberia, Alaska and Korea. Separated from mainland Tasmania, Robbins Island shelters an important Tasmanian Devil population, free of the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease.

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Call on Minister Plibersek to protect Robbins Island – critical habitat for birds and devils.

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Dear Minister Plibersek,

I understand that you are now faced with the responsibility to make a decision on whether to approve the Robbins Island Wind Farm. Robbins Island is a biodiversity ark. The sheer numbers of threatened and treaty protected species of migratory shore birds, the Swift and Orange-bellied Parrots, Wedge-tailed Eagles and White-bellied Sea Eagles, Masked Owls, White Goshawks and an isolated, disease free population of Tasmanian Devil are just some of the species threatened by this project. The proposed 1.4km causeway and bridge to the island will permanently alter flows and sediments impacting seagrass and saltmarsh fish nurseries housing over 170 species of fish.
 
This proposed project is likely the greatest biodiversity impact ever seen in Tasmania.

The Tasmanian EPA has recommended approval with an annual five month shut down during the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot migration. This leaves over twenty other EPBC protected bird species, including three other critically endangered species, at risk for the remaining seven months.

We urge you to go further. This project must be rejected. For the birds, the devils, the marine species and the planet.

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