BETTER LAWS NEEDED TO STOP EXTINCTIONS
THREATS SUCH AS land clearing and climate change are leading to declines in Australia’s native flora and fauna, yet legal protection for threatened species is weak.
In 2020 the federal government put $200 million towards helping species badly hit by last summer’s bushfire crisis. But it was simultaneously considering weakening threatened species protection under the (EPBC Act). The government argues the law stymies developers through a complex mess of
