In many ways, yes, bureaucracy is the greatest challenge facing environmental conservation. When governments get involved, the big companies that rely on these unstable practices will get involved to stop the environmental protections from going into effect. When that happens, the environmental conservationists have to fight harder, and nothing gets done. In this way, bureaucracy does stop environmental conservation.
However, bureaucracy does give us all an inside edge: it gives everyone what they want. The goal of conservation is to be able to use the land now while leaving it for our children to use as well. By having the government get involved, the environmentalists can rest a little easier, knowing they were able to help for the environment and give the businesses what they wanted.
This 1950 Act of Western Australia relates to protection of flora and fauna. In every country, there appear to be cycles of action with bureacracy standing in the way of wildlife preservation in order to benefit the economic climate.
With the economy stable and in a good state for some years, there is then a move to become more aware of the environment, and a readiness to act to preserve aspects in trouble, such as species faltering near extinction. This leads to greater agency reliance upon rules to regulate practice around environmental issues.