Audit Office report slams government over endangered species

The Australian National Audit Office has slammed the government's starving of funds for identifying and protecting Australia's endangered species of flora, fauna and ecological communities.

"The Auditor-General repeatedly rounds on the government's failure to properly fund saving our nation's rare and endangered creatures," Senator Brown said.

"The Ministers for the Environment have delayed funding, failed to ensure that environmental safeguards required of projects threatening species were enforced."

"This report indicts this government as not complying with it sown environmental laws in the key area of saving Australian wildlife from extinction," Senator Brown said.