Biodiversity in Australia is in steep decline, posing major risks to human health.
Australia is one of 17 megadiverse countries globally, with many plants, animals and ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. Unfortunately, over 200 years since European colonisation, Australia has suffered the largest decline in biodiversity of any continent, including the highest rate of extinctions in the modern world.
Read the full article: Why losing Australia's biodiversity matters for human health: insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment
by Katherine A Barraclough, Marion Carey, Kenneth D Winkel, Emily Humphries, Brooke Ah Shay and Yi Chao Foong
Published online: 17 April 2023