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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Australia doing a poor job of protecting unique plants

The waratah's extinction risk has never been assessed despite the threats it faces. (HANDOUT/RACHAEL GALLAGHER)

Australia has the world's highest proportion of unique plants but is doing a poor job of working out if they're in danger, a global assessment has found.

Conservation experts have gathered in London to provide a snapshot of plant heath and what countries are doing to safeguard hundreds of thousands of species.

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