Question

Why do we need to sustain land

Answer 1

The State of the Environment (SoE) Report identifies many environmental and natural resource values in Tasmania. These include values that are important for the uses or services they provide for people, as well as values that are important for their own sake irrespective of human use. Many environmental services are not valued and are poorly understood, although programs such as Protected Environmental Values (PEVs) have set out to define these values for the State's rivers and estuaries. Environmental services include the capacity of the environment to assimilate waste and the productive capacity of land and water. The following are examples of some of the values identified in the SoE Report.