Australia is taking at least six years to list habitats as threatened under national environment laws, an inquiry examining the country’s extinction crisis has heard.
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| A diverse native grassland at Bibbenluke Common, Monaro region, NSW. |
The Humane Society International (HSI) also said that potential major threats to Australia’s wildlife are going unexamined because “we’re not even spending the meagre funds required” to look into them.
A Senate committee has been examining Australia’s high rate of fauna extinction, which scientists have labelled a “national disgrace”.
Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “Australia taking six years to list threatened habitats under environment laws.”
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