Race to save frogs, quokkas, parrots and koalas from extinction helped by new threat database

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From the "population crash" of the swift parrot to shrinking habitat for koalas and quokkas: It's hoped a comprehensive database of threats to endangered species can help halt Australia's terrible record of extinctions.

• Researchers have collaborated to create Australia's first comprehensive list of conservation threats
• The two highest ranking threats are habitat loss and invasive species
• Experts say the document is "useful" and could help protect threatened species

"We created a database of all Australia's threatened species that are on the National Threatened Species List under the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act," she said.

"Then we collated the threats for each of the species and then the severity of each of the threats."

Taking into account the number of species impacted — habitat loss is the number one threat.

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