Extinction is a diminution of the natural legacy that we have inherited. It is a breach of the duty we have for inter-generational equity – that we should pass to our descendants a world as rich, intact…
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Articles on Australian endangered species
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Australia has 96 critically endangered animal species, as listed by the IUCN. Over the coming months, we will be publishing a profile of each of them, looking at the threats to their survival, what’s being…
In 1999, Robert Hill’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC Act) was enacted. One of its hard-fought provisions was that threatened species (and ecological communities) had to be considered…
Tim Flannery’s recent Quarterly Essay, After the Future, questions whether Australian national parks will become “marsupial ghost towns” despite the tens of millions of dollars governments spend on them…
Today we begin a series on Australia’s endangered species and how best to conserve them. The series will run each Thursday, and begins with this excerpt from Tim Flannery’s Quarterly Essay, After the Future…
Tim Flannery, in his Quarterly Essay After the Future, is right to deplore the sudden abrogation of responsibility for threatened species by state and federal governments. The tragedy is that neglecting…
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University
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Honorary Research Associate, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Director, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
