With Australia’s shocking extinction record coming under closer scrutiny since the 2019-20 bushfires, and with the election of a new government, a conservation group is calling for habitat to be the highest priority. Habitat loss is one of the key threats to Australia’s wildlife, and data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says it is the number one driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. IFAW works across Australia, and internationally, using a holistic approach to address this. Notwithstanding, “we can plant all the trees in the world, but if we’re simultaneously cutting them down in areas of crucial wildlife habitat, we will only fail in our critical task of protecting Australia’s iconic native species.”
Posted by on 13 Sep 2022
