Australia reports that the country's environment is deteriorating

Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, July 19 (Reporter Yue Dongxing) The "2021 Environmental Status Report" released by the Australian government on the 19th said that due to climate change, habitat loss, species invasion, pollution and resource mining, Australia The environmental conditions generally look at "bad and worsening."

Australia issued an environmental report every five years. The latest report said that in the past five years, many "sudden changes" in the Australian ecosystem have been threatened by increasingly threatened ecosystems and many species.

报告列出一系列存在的问题，包括澳自1990年以来已有超过610万公顷的原始森林被砍伐并转化为其他土地用途；澳目前的外来陆生植物物种超过本土植物；自2016年以来， The number of threatening species in Australia has increased by 8%, and it is expected to increase in the next few years. Since European colonization, 47%to 78%of salt and mangroves in Australia have disappeared; Many; the heat waves in 2018 caused a large -scale death of fox bats in Queensland.

The report pointed out that in terms of protecting the ecological environment, the overall investment in Australia is insufficient, lack of coordination, and the strategy of protecting biodiversity and the challenges faced with the challenges.

The report suggested that the Australian departments should act immediately, reverse the situation through innovative management and cooperation, to increase investment, and to better monitor the environment and collect data, and coordinate with the aboriginal and local communities when formulating a solution. Cooperation.

Australian Australia's Minister of Environmental Tania Plibsick said on the 19th that if Australia continued the current trajectory, maybe many precious places, landscapes, animals and plants would not be seen. Next, the Australian government will formulate national goals on protecting land and marine environment.

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