Leading Australian Biologists Call For Species Triage; Kakadu NP "Biodiversity Basket Case"
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"I'm afraid to tell everybody we're in a terminal situation. We're confronting a whole raft of species about to go over the extinction cliff," Professor David Bowman, an expert in environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania, said.
Professor Corey Bradshaw, director of the Environment Institute's Climate and Ecology Centre at The University of Adelaide, says Kakadu National Park has suffered a 95 per cent decline in mammals. "Kakadu National Park, our largest national park, is basically a biodiversity basket case," Professor Bradshaw said.
"The Great Barrier Reef has been suffering biodiversity declines for decades. Now if we can't get it right in our two biggest and most well-known and certainly the best-funded parks and protected areas in Australia, what hope have we for the rest of our national parks?"
Around Australia at least 100 unique species have already become extinct since European settlement with more than 1,500 under threat, but scientists suspect many more have vanished or are on the brink without anyone realising.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-19/australian-species-facing-extinction-living-dead-triage/5331908
