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| Subject: Environmental insanity continues: A billion dollars for conserving OZschwitz birds Sat May 25, 2013 9:18 pm | |
| The emu-wren, with its delicate filagreed tail, would go. So too would the master of disguise, the ground parrot - victims of increased fire in Australia's south-east.
And the palm cockatoo could disappear from its tropical toehold.
They are among 396 native birds likely to suffer as a result of climate change, according to the first analysis of global warming's effects on Australian birds.
Of 1232 Australian bird species and subspecies, one-quarter would do badly when exposed to the effects of climate change later this century, the report finds. Advertisement
It calls for funds now, for what would eventually be a $940 million program to safeguard birds from Cape York to Tasmania.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/400-native-species-in-danger-20130525-2n3pf.html#ixzz2UMD5WkDs
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