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By spending $2 billion each year for about 30 years, we could restore much of Australia’s severely denuded landscapes.
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Many valuable scientific breakthroughs were originally published in a non-English language. New research shows more effort is needed to transcend language barriers to improve conservation science.
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Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century.
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While the prospect of reviving extinct species has long been discussed, advances in genome editing have now brought such dreams close to reality.
Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko
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With targeted conservation action, we might just save many of these species before it’s too late.
Red-finned blue-eye
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Twenty of these freshwater fish species have a 50% or greater probability of extinction within the next 20 years.
Australia is home to many new species, including wild camels found nowhere else on Earth.
Species counts drive conservation science and policy, yet a major component of biodiversity is excluded from the data: non-native species.
NASA ‘could not imagine the radical effect of seeing the Earth’ from the moon. In the face of a climate catastrophe, we all need to step back and see the Earth again.
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Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
Supporters of Extinction Rebellion march in London.
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The conventional channels for scientists to inform and influence policy are not addressing the climate and ecological crises quickly enough.
Plant extinctions have skyrocketed, driven in large part by land clearing and climate change.
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Human-driven land clearing and climate change are sending plants extinct at a rapid rate, risking a devastating biodiversity crash.
A giant guitarfish caught in West Papua is hung from a fishing boat. Guitarfish are in trouble, according to the IUCN Red List.
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An update of the IUCN Red List attempts to map the real extent of global biodiversity loss.
Matchstick banksia (Banksia cuneate ). There are only about 500 of these plants left in the wild at 11 different sites, with much of its habitat having been historically cleared for agriculture.
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A recent global survey found almost 600 plants have gone extinct. And this figure is likely to be an underestimate.
The horned land frog (Sphenophryne cornuta ) carries babies on its back. New Guinea must be protected from the deadly chytrid fungus, or we could see around 100 frog species be wiped out.
The island of New Guinea is home to 6% of the world’s frogs, but if the deadly chytrid fungus invades it could cause a mass extinction.
A pair of blacktip reef shark neonates (Carcharhinus melanopterus) gently cruise among the roots in the mangrove forest of Surin Archipelago during high tide in Mu Koh Surin national park, Thailand.
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Far more megafauna species use coastal wetlands than we thought. And it affects the way we need to address the extinction crisis.
Almost 9 in 10 Australians agree we should invest in restoring wildlife habitats and natural places.
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Sarah Bekessy , RMIT University ; Alex Kusmanoff , RMIT University ; Ascelin Gordon , RMIT University ; Emily Gregg , RMIT University ; Freya Thomas , RMIT University ; Georgia Garrard , RMIT University ; Holly Kirk , RMIT University ; Jeremy Ringma , RMIT University ; Katherine Berthon , RMIT University ; Lindall Kidd , RMIT University ; Marco Gutierrez , RMIT University ; Mathew Hardy , RMIT University ; Matthew Selinske , RMIT University et Roshan Sharma , RMIT University
Here are the promises and policies of the Coalition, Labor, the Greens, One Nation and more.
Edwards’s pheasants (Lophura edwardsi ) are a wild relative of domesticated chickens.
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Biodiversity is in crisis. Nowhere is this more serious than among the wild species which our livestock and crops descend from.
The Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) became extinct in 2009.
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Current environment laws are manifestly failing Australian animals.
Barking Owls are one of Australia’s 1,770 threatened or endangered species.
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Invasive species are the biggest single threat to Australian plants and animals.
Koalas are facing serious threats in the wild.
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It’s hard to say exactly how many koalas are in the wild, but there’s no doubt they’re in serious trouble.
The endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.
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Tackling the extinction crisis is not just about protecting each species. It’s also about preserving their home.