Hadn’t seen this mentioned.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-09-16/un-biodiversity-bramble-cay-melomys-extinction/12668356
“At the global level, none of the 20 targets have been fully achieved,” the report stated, “though six targets have been partially achieved.”
Strengthening and enforcing environmental protection laws is outlined as a key lever to help stop the loss of biodiversity — a warning that Australian Conservation Foundation spokesperson Basha Stasak said the Government needs to pay attention to.
“The Australian Government’s own report to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in March 2020 revealed the Government failed to meet or measure the majority of its targets,” Ms Stasak said.
“Yet the Morrison Government is trying to further weaken nature protection in rushed changes to the national environment law due to be debated in the Senate next month.”
Australia’s environment laws have come under scrutiny since the interim report into the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, released in July, found that the Act is failing to curb our loss of habitat and species.