Australia's biodiversity strategy a global embarrassment, green groups say
by Anne Davies from Environment | The Guardian on (#3DVC7)
Extinction prevention plan branded 'deeply inadequate' after environment department publishes paper without targets
The federal government's latest strategy to protect Australian plants and animals facing extinction has been branded "deeply inadequate" and "a global embarrassment" by environment groups.
The Sydney Morning Herald revealed that a new 13-page document had quietly replaced the old 100-page biodiversity conservation strategy just before Christmas on the Department of Environment's website.
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