SYDNEY (XINHUA) – Australia is one of the world leaders in mammal extinctions and 10 species have been identified as among the most imperilled, the country’s national environmental organisation said yesterday.
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has consulted a range of ecologists and biologists and identified 10 species as at serious risk of extinction, the organisation said in a media release.
They are Tasmania’s Maugean skate, the swift parrot, the regent honeyeater, a small wallaby called the Top End nabarlek, the Baw Baw frog, Victoria’s grassland earless dragon, the central rock-rat, the Kangaroo Island assassin spider and two plants, the Tunbridge leek-orchid and the Coffs Harbour Fontainea.
“Without the full reform of Australia’s unfit-for-purpose nature law and no sign of an independent agency to enforce the law, these 10 highly imperilled plants and animals are staring down the barrel of extinction,” ACF nature campaigner Darcie Carruthers said.
