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.
As the nation’s shocking record of extinctions continues unabated, Australia’s senior ecologists and conservation biologists demand urgent action.
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.
We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history.
Scientists have officially called it: the Derwent River seastar is gone.
Australia is failing to meet international obligations to protect our unique wildlife, experts say.