Plan to save endangered Leadbeater's possum must consider timber industry, minister says
by Adam Morton Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4HSZE)
Conservationists urge Sussan Ley to get her priorities right, saying her job is to protect species, not industries
Victoria's faunal emblem, the tiny Leadbeater's possum, will keep its critically endangered listing after the environment minister, Sussan Ley, rejected a push by Coalition MPs and the forestry industry to downgrade its conservation status.
But Ley has been criticised for suggesting a long-delayed recovery plan for the possum should also consider the needs of the timber industry.
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