WHITE LEMUROID POSSUM
| WHITE LEMUROID POSSUM | (Hemibelideus lemuroides) | © Copyright | Image credit: Mark Ziembicki |
What we face losing under climate change
One species of animal has become extinct and at-risk in Australia because of climate change. But there are many more we stand to lose forever.
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Heatwaves have caused flying foxes to drop dead from the sky. Animals like the northern hairy-nosed wombat, the glossy black cockatoo and the lemuroid ringtail possum are at risk of dying out.
“It’s pretty bad,” says Finders University global ecology Professor Corey Bradshaw.
He says Australia was already the world leader in mammal extinction.
The List of endangered and extinct species is kept by the Federal Government as part of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
It states 54 species are already extinct in Australia, including 27 types of mammals, 22 types of birds and four types of frogs.
A further 10 mammals are “critically endangered”.
But under climate change, we stand to lose even more.
Prof Bradshaw says the problem is Australia could lose species we don’t have know exist yet.
Only 10 to 20 per cent of species across the world have actually been described.
“We could easily be losing species before we even know they’re there,” he says.
“The real worry is we don’t even know what we’re losing in terms of the small things.
“We stand to lose much more biodiversity than we can even map out fast enough.”
Under a warmer world, we face putting even more at risk.
Countless animals and plant life species are under threat as their habitats become at risk or higher temperatures affect their way of life.
Prof Bradshaw says we could lose animals like the northern hairy nose wombat, of which there are only a few hundred left.
“Australia already has a lot of smaller and endangered populations,” he says.
“It’s the highly restricted rare species that are the most vulnerable and we’ve got a lot of those in Australia.
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