Fully recovering Australia’s threatened species would cost 25% of GDP. We can’t do it all at once – so let’s start here
- Written by April Reside, Lecturer in Conservation, The University of Queensland
An endangered golden-shouldered parrotImogen Warren/ShutterstockAustralia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Across land and freshwater habitats, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate. Their populations have fallen 2-3% every year over the last quarter century.
The accelerating loss of species...





