Every five years, the Australian government releases a comprehensive report on the state of the nation's environment, put together by a panel of independent scientists. The latest report, released this week, was long overdue and was always expected
In fact, Australia has one of thein the world and has already lost more mammal species than any other continent.
In the next two decades, experts predict the northern hopping-mouse, the rock-rat, the Christmas Island flying fox, and the black-footed tree-rat could all go extinct.about 70 percent of Australian plant and animal species have yet to be discovered or describedThat's why Indigenous knowledge is so invaluable. People living in Australia for tens of thousands of years have a deep understanding about what healthy, native ecosystems look like and how best to manage them.
For the first time, the 2021 State of Environment Report devotes an entire chapter to the role of First Nations people in conservation, giving Australia's Indigenous people a voice in the nation's environmental heritage. Brendan Wintle, an ecosystem and forest scientist at the University of Melbourne, who was not involved in the recent environmental report,that the findings were"very much a precursor to an extinction crisis in Australia, unless we see transformative change".
Thankfully, much of the Australian public is calling for just that. In May of 2022, even without seeing the 2021 report,Clearly, in a nation battered by climate disaster after climate disaster, squirreling away an environmental report cannot conceal the dire reality – and now we have all the specifics, laid bare in heartbreaking detail.
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