Researchers find 26 Australian species no longer on the brink of extinction

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class="YtLlr aHS+3 V-v0y fm7dv _8teMo _5pKBM" data-component="Text">A research team led by Dr John Woinarski from Charles Darwin University reviewed all animals which have been listed as threatened under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) between 2000 and December 2022. Mammals: Boodie, burrowing bettong (Barrow and Boodie Islands subspecies), boodie, burrowing bettong (Shark Bay subspecies), chuditch/western quoll, golden bandicoot, rufous hare-wallaby, mala, banded hare-wallaby, greater stick-nest rat, greater bilby, humpback whale, bridled nail-tailed wallaby, western barred bandicoot, eastern barred bandicoot, yellow-footed rock-wallabyBirds: Bulloo grey grasswren, great knot, southern cassowary, greater sand plover, Gouldian finch, blue petrel, black-browed albatross, sooty albatrossFrogs: Australian lace-lid, waterfall frog, growling grass frog, southern bell frog, common mistfrogReptiles: Flinders Ranges worm-lizardFish: Murray codSource: Biological Conservation, The Biodiversity Council"Until we can do that, havens are a powerful tool for preventing extinctions and shoring up populations. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced

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