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Queensland's Environment Department still behind on saving threatened species, auditor-general finds

The report found the department was tracking just 10.3 per cent of threatened species' populations. (Supplied: Flickr)

More than four years after the Queensland's Environment Department was found to have no plan to protect threatened species, the agency is still lagging behind, according to the state's auditor-general. 

The latest report, tabled in parliament on Thursday, looked at the department's progress against the seven recommendations made in 2018.

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