The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has added more plants and animals to Australia’s national list of threatened species, including woodlands that had been eligible for protection for years.
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| Native bush and woodland in Tasmania. Sussan Ley has listed the state’s woodlands dominated by black gum or brookers gum as critically endangered. |
Ley announced on Friday afternoon that the Nabarlek, found in the Northern Territory, had been added to Australia’s list of critically endangered mammals.
Four frogs – the Baw Baw frog, the white-bellied frog, the yellow-spotted tree frog and the Kuranda tree Frog – have had their status upgraded from endangered to critically endangered.
The minister also confirmed that three woodlands that had been delayed from receiving protection by her predecessors Josh Frydenberg and Melissa Price – in some cases for years – would now be listed under national environment laws.
Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “Minister grants woodlands protection after years of delay by predecessors.”
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