Australia
has highest rate of mammal extinction in the world but government admits it
‘does not have data’ on plans
Wed 20
Mar 2019 17.00 GMTLast modified on Wed 20 Mar
2019 23.08 GMT
The
federal environment department has admitted it does not know whether recovery
plans meant to prevent extinctions of threatened species are actually being
implemented.
In
responses to questions on notice from Labor during recent Senate estimates
hearings, the department said it “does not have data on the total number of
conservation plans – recovery plans and conservation advices – being implemented”.
Labor’s
environment spokesman, Tony Burke, said the admission “reinforces the need for
new environmental laws”, something
Labor has promised but not yet released the policy detail on.
Burke
said: “What’s the point in listing threatened species if there’s no plan for
the species to recover? Even a species as iconic as a koala, which I listed
more than six years ago, still doesn’t have a recovery plan.”
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