Environment and Natural Resource Management

The Australian pig industry is committed to ensuring environmentally sustainable pork production. To meet and exceed the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements in each state the pork industry has developed the National Environmental Guidelines for Piggeries to facilitate a consistent environmental regulatory approach.

The National Environmental Guidelines for Piggeries provide a general framework for managing environmental issues associated with piggeries and a benchmark for assessing their environmental sustainability. Based on latest scientific information and best industry practice these guidelines facilitate management of environmental risks and reduction of the environmental footprint of pig production in a consistent regulatory approach throughout Australia.

APL National Environmental Guidelines

APL National Environmental Sustainability Strategy for the Pork Industry 2008


Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act

In 2002, The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) seconded an Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources Liaison Officer to provide advice regarding the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act).

What can the Liaison Officer do for producers?

•       Stakeholder access to all areas of the Department. This can include funding streams, as well as programme and policy areas. If you are unsure who to talk to within the Department on particular issues, the Liaison Officer can direct you.
•       Free advice and clear explanation regarding the EPBC Act.
•       Training on the processes and outputs of the Department.
•       Practical assistance with aspects of referral, assessment and approval processes and other features of the EPBC Act.
•       Guides, information sheets and direction to relevant websites to make it easier for farmers to work with the legislation.
•       Information and training about the Department and the EPBC Act to NFF staff, organisations and rural landowners.
•       Assistance with consultative processes, such as comments on nominations for threatened species, ecological communities, key threatening processes and recovery plans under the EPBC Act.
•       Provision of feedback to both the NFF and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts about the operation of the EPBC Act.

 For more information please refer to Farming and the national environment law: EPBC Act