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"Australia’s natural world is in deep trouble. Many of our species are getting
rarer. Some are now perilously close to extinction, while entire ecosystems
face collapse.
Sudden biodiversity loss in events such as the Black Summer wildfires happen
against a backdrop of decline due to land clearing, introduced species and
other pervasive threats. For example, Australia’s threatened bird species
declined in abundance by an average of 44% from 2000 to 2016.
It is easy to lose heart – to be numbed by despair for an ever-diminishing
natural world, or to dismiss our environmental laws and management as useless
and broken.
But we have 29 reasons not to give up hope. Our new research has found 15
threatened mammal, eight bird, four frog, one reptile and one fish species have
recovered enough that they no longer meet the criteria for listing as
threatened. Our assessments were based on scrutiny of the latest data on
population size and distributions – a review process that the government
doesn’t routinely do.
These recoveries stem largely from years of collaborative conservation between
government agencies, conservation organisations, First Nations groups and
individuals."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
