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flag Australia’s environmental reforms exclude a climate trigger, risking biodiversity amid rising extinction rates.

flag Environment Minister Murray Watt is negotiating Australia’s environmental law overhaul with the Coalition instead of the Greens, raising concerns about weak protections for biodiversity. flag Despite a climate super-majority in Parliament and strong public support, the proposed reforms are unlikely to include a climate trigger, undermining efforts to address climate-driven ecological collapse. flag Past actions, like weakening laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry despite risks to the endangered Maugean skate, highlight a pattern of prioritizing industry over conservation. flag With Australia facing one of the world’s highest extinction rates due to climate change, logging, and land clearing, critics say the new laws will be ineffective without enforceable climate safeguards and resistance to political interference.

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