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The black-throated finch – ‘a clear example of threatened species that need habitat to be protected in perpetuity.’ Photograph: Markus Mayer/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo
July 9, 2020
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Australia has not updated a register of habitat critical for the protection of threatened species for 15 years, prompting experts to call for it to be strengthened to protect more types of land. An independent scientific body that advises the government on threatened species also says the environment minister should be given emergency powers to protect habitat after natural disasters. 

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