Half the world's ecosystems at risk from habitat loss, and Australia is one of the worst
- Written by James Watson, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
Habitat loss is the most insidious of all threats facing land-living wildlife, and protected areas like national parks are one of the best ways to combat the destruction. But in research published recently in Conversation Letters, we show that in some places the pace of protected areas isn’t keeping up with the losses.
We found that since...