WA government says federal nature conservation funding fell from $8m in 2009 to $1m in 2016
The premier of Western Australia has expressed concerns about the lack of federal funding for threatened species protection and government inaction on recovery planning. And the Northern Territory government has said it may have just one threatened species with an adequate monitoring program.
In a letter to a Senate inquiry into Australia’s high rate of fauna extinctions, the WA premier, Mark McGowan, writes that conservation work by the state, including control of predators, had enabled the WA government to downgrade the threatened status of some species, but protecting the country’s endemic wildlife was becoming more challenging because of reduced federal spending.
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