Australian gov't fails to protect biodiversity: report

CANBERRA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government is failing to protect more than 1,500 unique ecosystems, a new research has found.

According to the report published by the Australian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Tuesday, 1,542 out of Australia's 6,001 terrestrial ecosystems and 115 out of 920 marine ecosystems have no protections.

Of those that are protected, only 2,218 terres