The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142 last year.
Australia has one of the world’s highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation.
There were 42 new additions to the national list of threatened species, including 21 animals, 20 plants and one threatened ecological community — the King Island scrub complex.
Each species has been given one of the three highest ratings on the threatened status scale (vulnerable, endangered or, the most precarious rating, critically endangered).
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Forty-one new flora and fauna species added to Australia’s threatened list – ABC News
