Expired, unfinished or undeveloped:
conservationists call for more transparency and accountability in species
management systems
Mon 19 Feb 2018 17.00 GMTLast
modified on Mon 19 Feb 2018 22.24 GMT
Less than 40% of Australia’s
nationally-listed threatened species have recovery plans in place to secure
their long-term survival.
And close to 10% of listed threatened species
are identified as requiring plans to manage their protection but the documents
are either unfinished or haven’t been developed, according to data published by
the environment and energy department.
Other critically endangered, endangered and
vulnerable species have plans that are years or decades out of date and contain
no detail on what actions have been taken to ensure a species avoids
extinction.
Conservationists want an overhaul of
Australia’s national environment laws – the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC)
act – to bring transparency and accountability to the country’s opaque system
of species management.
“Nobody seems to have ultimate responsibility
for protecting them,” said the Wilderness Society national director Lyndon
Schneiders.
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