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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

SPECIES CRASH

Biodiversity crashing Australia-wide

Australia has the worst record for mammal extinctions and near-extinctions of any developed nation in the world. And according to the latest national audit of Australian biodiversity, the nation is still losing plant and animal species on a continental scale.

Forest ecologist David Lindenmayer said "we are seeing massive crashes of mammal populations in northern Australia now, and we're not seeing those in southern Australia because essentially mammals have gone from huge areas of woodlands, and we are starting to see the bird populations crash."

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