Updated 19 Jan 2016,
8:46am
A strategic plan for the
endangered swift parrot has not been finalised, more than two years after it
was due for completion.
The Federal Government
allocated $300,000 for the Tasmanian Government to develop a strategic plan for
the conservation of the swift parrot and its habitat in 2010.
The project was due to be
completed in 2013 but there is still no final plan.
In a statement,
Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said
Tasmania was operating within the draft plan.
"It is recognized
that the draft requires updating to include latest information including on the
threat posed to the species by the sugar glider," the statement said.
"The Tasmanian and Commonwealth
governments are updating the plan."
The information that
sugar gliders are a threat to the swift parrot has been public since 2012.
Greens senator Nick McKim
accused the State Government of sitting on its hands.
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