‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored

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Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/25/worst-its-ever-been-a-threatened-species-alarm-sounds-during-the-election-campaign-and-is-ignored

The Australian Capital Territory’s faunal emblem, the gang-gang cockatoo, is now on the endangered list.
The Australian Capital Territory’s faunal emblem, the gang-gang cockatoo, is now on the endangered list.Photograph: William Robinson/Alamy

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Lisa Cox

Lisa CoxSun 24 Apr 2022 13.30 EDT

Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened by what he found.

Andrews believes the state of the country’s natural wildlife and biodiversity is the “worst it’s ever been” and calls the ongoing destruction of forests and other habitat “crazy”.

After a political term marked by consecutive summer disasters and multiple official reports highlighting…

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