Australia has been inhabited for nearly 50,000 years. Man, as part of nature, has co-existed in a landscape that is one of the world's top five wilderness areas. However, Australia is a microcosm of the global biodiversity crisis. For the last 200 years, Australia has also ranked first among the countries with the highest extinction rates. Wild Australia is a program that recognizes that protecting Australia's significant biological resources means stemming the loss of critical habitat, managing competition from invasive species, re-establishing wildfire patterns, and curtailing the diversion of water and other development related factors that accelerate habitat loss. Learn More
About the Program
Australia ranks first among all nations in total number of endemic mammal and reptile species, and among the top five countries in total numbers of endemic plants, birds and amphibians. Wild Australia is an Australian-led project of the Pew Environment Group and The Nature Conservancy that is working to protect large tracts of Australia’s unique terrestrial and marine environment. Read More
Featured News
- ABC News PM with Mark Colvin (February 8, 2010)
- Kalgoorlie Miner (January 25, 2010)
- ABC Queensland Conversations (November 18, 2009)
- Agence France-Presse (November 2, 2009)