Earlier this week Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek announced an updated Threatened Species Action Plan, promising to halt Australia’s extinction crisis. 

But ecologists say endangered species will need a lot more in both dollars and a range of measures - to affect any real change.

Mike Foley, climate and energy correspondent for the Age and Sydney Morning Herald joins audio producer Julia Carr-Catzel to discuss.

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