Comments on: Can we solve Australia’s mammal extinction crisis?

By: Can Australia afford the dingo fence? « ConservationBytes.com

Can Australia afford the dingo fence? « ConservationBytes.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:51:14 +0000

[...] rabbits, our native biodiversity has suffered immensely. Indeed, Australia has the worst record for mammal extinctions in the world, mainly due to foxes and [...]

By: Eat a feral a week « ConservationBytes.com

Eat a feral a week « ConservationBytes.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:06:29 +0000

[...] animals cost Australia billions in damage each year, wreak havoc on our native ecosystems and cost millions more to control (largely [...]

By: Biodiversity SNAFU in Australia’s Jewel « ConservationBytes.com

Biodiversity SNAFU in Australia’s Jewel « ConservationBytes.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:45:40 +0000

[...] embarrassments over the last year (see Shocking continued loss of Australian mammals and Can we solve Australia’s mammal extinction crisis?), and now the most empirical demonstration of this is now [...]

By: Burning the biosphere, boverty blues (Part II) « BraveNewClimate

Burning the biosphere, boverty blues (Part II) « BraveNewClimate — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:46:42 +0000

[...] on Australia’s mammal extinction crisis. His bottom line summary was that we should “Stop burning the shit out of our forests“. In sub-Saharan Africa, they are burning 12 times more biomass from an area 6 times bigger [...]

By: An Endangered Species…Lottery? | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:02:29 +0000

[...] they’re still declining. An extensive national park system has not proved enough to counter to the impact of land clearing, [...]

By: Protecting Australian wilderness « ConservationBytes.com

Protecting Australian wilderness « ConservationBytes.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:08:51 +0000

[...] has a pretty bad biodiversity conservation track record – we have some of the worst mammal extinction trends in the world, and we’ve lost at least 50 % of our forested area since European colonisation. [...]