Victorian government pressed to deliver promised funding for threatened plants and animals
by Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#5SKN5)
Critically endangered grasslands on Melbourne's outskirts should be immediately protected, parliamentary inquiry says
Underfunding of environmental initiatives by the Victorian government is pushing plants and animals across the state toward extinction, a state parliamentary inquiry has found.
The Greens-led inquiry, examining the decline of habitats and wildlife in Victoria tabled its final report, calling for changes to how the state funds and enforces protection of endangered wildlife and a massive increase to the national parks budget.
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