Opinion & Analysis
OPINION: Law reform for nature
Conserving Australia’s biodiversity requires a national reckoning, argues wildlife ecologist Euan Ritchie.
Tag: extinction crisis
Science & Environment
Sex, stress and fertility in Australian wildlife
Hormones are driving a radical new approach to fighting the country’s extinction crisis.
News
Landslide vote: 97% of us want extinctions stopped and 72% want more spent on the environment
Most Australians (97%) want more action to protect nature, even if they don’t know the full extent of the biodiversity crisis. That’s the startling finding emerging from a national survey of 4000 voters.
News
Going, going, gone: can we turn around our wildlife extinction crisis?
As the nation’s shocking record of extinctions continues unabated, Australia’s senior ecologists and conservation biologists demand urgent action.
Science & Environment
Has Australia reached its environmental tipping point?
Early last year, a report by 38 ecologists and climate change experts warned that Australian ecosystems were already collapsing en masse and called for a radical rethink of how we approach nature conservation.
News
Urgent action needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history.
News
Derwent River seastar officially extinct, scientists say
Scientists have officially called it: the Derwent River seastar is gone.
Wildlife
The extinction crisis: Australians call for a radical re-haul of environmental laws
Australia is failing to meet international obligations to protect our unique wildlife, experts say.