Article 3JST1 Australia's birds are not being protected by environmental laws, report says

Australia's birds are not being protected by environmental laws, report says

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Michael Slezak
from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JST1)

BirdLife says loopholes, exemptions, omissions and powers open to politicisation have been exploited

Some of Australia's favourite birds are threatened with extinction and Australia's environmental laws are failing to protect them, a new report by BirdLife Australia has found.

The report identified in the existing laws a slew of loopholes, exemptions, omissions and discretionary powers open to politicisation, each of which have been exploited to allow the decline of birds including the Carnaby's black cockatoo, the swift parrot and the southern black-throated finch.

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