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Victorians who kill or injure native animals could face new fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars after community outcry over the failure of the state’s wildlife protection laws sparked a legal review.
Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio announced the legislation would be overhauled after the deaths of dozens of koalas that were bulldozed at a blue-gum plantation in western Victoria last year, and the shooting and poisoning of hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in Gippsland.
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