A new report on Australian birds has added four more species to the critically endangered list and found that a total of 39 species or sub-species are more threatened now than they were a decade ago. The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010, compiled by researchers from Charles Darwin University and published today by the CSIRO, is an update on the previous report released in 2000. This 2010 report lists 27 taxa (which means species or sub-species) as Extinct, 20 as Critically Endangered, 60 as Endangered, 68 as Vulnerable and 63 as Near Threatened as at 31 December, 2010. The four taxa that that were added to the Critically Endangered list are the Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma, the Western Ground Parrot Pezoporus flaviventris, the Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia and the Norfolk Island Tasman Parakeet Cyanoramphus cookii.
Source: The Conversation, 30 September 2011
http://theconversation.edu.au/list-of-critically-endangered-australian-…
Australia's peak body for bird lovers is sounding the alarm about the alarming decline of birdlife in the country.
Birds Australia says there are now 234 Australian birds that are extinct or in some way seriously threatened.
Each decade, the group publishes The Action Plan for Australian Birds, highlighting the risk of extinction faced by each species or sub-species.
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Presenter: Ashley Hall
Speaker: Dr Graeme Hamilton, chief executive of Birds Australia
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201110/s3330810.htm
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