Data relating to the use of chemical herbicides with the Wet Tropics region of Northern Queensland
Dear Queensland Wet Tropics Management Authority,
Please provide a response to these Freedom of Information requests.
What evidence do you have that you have successfully eradicated the declared invasive weeds within the Wet Tropics?
Provide your data on how you have determined safety to the environment.
Provide your data on how you have determined safety to the employees and volunteers from partner organisations spraying the chemical herbicides.
Provide data that includes downstream effects on watercourses and non-target species.
Provide your research that shows whether these herbicides are causing endocrine disruption within non-target species.
Provide your data which shows that these spray programs have actually eradicated these weed species.
Provide data showing which weed species have been eradicated and which have not.
Provide data showing that chemical herbicide treatments are a sustainable and ecologically friendly method of weed control within the Wet Tropics areas under your management.
Provide your data and research that shows and quantifies the effects these chemical herbicides are having on the Great Barrier Reef ecology including the microbiology that underpins the health of the reef ecosystem.
Yours faithfully,
Spray Free FNQ
Dear Queensland Wet Tropics Management Authority,
We have still not received a response to our FOI request.
By law, your organisation should have responded promptly and by December 29, 2021.
We require a response to these important concerns.
Yours faithfully,
Spray Free FNQ
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Wet Tropics Management Authority
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From: Spray Free FNQ <[FOI #8113 email]>
Sent: Monday, 3 January 2022 11:09 AM
To: Wet Tropics
Subject: Re: Right to Information request - Data relating to the use of chemical herbicides with the Wet Tropics region of Northern Queensland
Dear Queensland Wet Tropics Management Authority,
We have still not received a response to our FOI request.
By law, your organisation should have responded promptly and by December 29, 2021.
We require a response to these important concerns.
Yours faithfully,
Spray Free FNQ
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