Record number of Australian threatened species
A record number of animals and plants have been listed as new threatened species in Australia. Analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows more species were added in 2023 to the national threatened species list than in any other year since the list was established.
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00:33 The reason that we saw such an uptake in listings last year
00:37 was because the environment minister and her department
00:39 were clearing the backlog of nominations
00:42 that have been sitting there for years and years on end.
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