Threatened species
Female Glossy Black-Cockatoo feeding on a forest she-oak in an area that experience low severity fire in the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires
The south-eastern subspecies of Glossy Black-Cockatoo is now a listed threatened subspecies (Vulnerable) under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
Read MoreThis short film describes the threats faced by Glossy Black-Cockatoos in south-east Queensland, and some of the work being done to help save them.
Read MoreAnyone working in conservation science today will tell you that climate change is a central theme in a lot of our work, and for good reason. In almost all cases, modelling predicts that species will be negatively affected, sometimes catastrophically so. The Great Barrier Reef is hurtling towards being listed as World Heritage in Danger, thanks two massive coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 brought on by warming sea temperatures. Polar bears and ringed seals are losing their Arctic home, and the Bramble Cay Melomys has already gone the way of the dodo.
But what if I told you that exploitation – not climate change – was actually the largest threat to most species worldwide?
Read MoreWhen it comes to cities’ natural areas (or national parks, or beaches, or ‘green spaces’, and so on), it can be difficult and controversial to define their purpose.
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