21 species just joined the threatened list. @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social blamed “a decade of environmental vandalism by the LNP". @jamestrezise.bsky.social said it’s fair to say the environment was neglected for years before the Albanese Gov, but they have also not done enough.
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Woinarski et al. estimate 9000 (plausible bounds of 1,465–56,828) extinctions of terrestrial endemic invertebrates have occurred since colonisation of Aus.

One to three invertebrate species are going extinct in Australia every week, study suggests Scientists say more than 9,000 non-marine invertebrate species have gone extinct in Australia since Europeans arrived in 1788.

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Great Barrier Reef looking ‘as wonderful as ever’ The Great Barrier Reef is “in wonderful shape”, according to IPA Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy. “I was just diving off Cairns a few weeks back and it’s looking as wonderful as ever,” Dr Marohasy told Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean. “Do you know why we have record coral cover – it’s because for decades now both the number and intensity of cyclones hitting the Great Barrier Reef has actually been decreasing. “And that’s not something the Bureau of Meteorology is telling us.”

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