The fact that States and Territories are responsible for the management of conservation and related issues within their own borders has led to the development of a diverse body of legislation, with considerable disparity in the approaches taken by different jurisdictions. This has led to parochial anomalies in relation to threatened species, where (for instance) a species can be protected as rare in one jurisdiction, even if it is extremely abundant in another, or a genuinely threatened species can be afforded legislative protection in one jurisdiction but not in another where it occurs.



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