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Australia's diversity: Two new species every week for the last ten years!
Sun, 06/09/2009 - 11:19
WWF- Australia launched a report today (6th September 2009) highlighting there have been at least 1300 new plant and animal species discovered in Australia in the last ten years. This remarkable diversity includes 1072 plants, 195 fish, 74 reptiles, 13 amphibians and 7 mammals.
Some of the more interesting species include
* The highly venomous Pilbara Death Adder
* The 'flesh eating' Pitcher Plant of Cape York - believed to consume small rat, mice, lizards and birds!
* The 'fast talking' Tree Frog of North East Queensland
The report has been released to mark National Threatened Species Day on 7th September. More information can be found at
http://www.wwf.org.au/publications/australiashiddentreasures09/
Great news! I'm ecstatic about that, knowing that there is hope to these animals would be able to survive and not be on extinction. I am hoping that this time they would be able t provide a safe and secured wild life for these animals and botanical gardens as well for the plants so that they would not be in danger from hunters and deforestation. Double Falsehood