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Dominic Giannini

Whether environment laws can stop extinction examined

An inquiry is looking at the population decline and conservation status of threatened species. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Concerns that environmental laws lack transparency and adequate ambition will be put under the microscope at hearings into extinction in Australia next month. 

Consultations for reforms to environmental and biodiversity protection laws have been secretive and stakeholders gagged as well as lacking in ambition, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.

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