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• Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery

  06-04-2025 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped outExplore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this electionAustralia is justly famous as a place where ancient species, long extinct elsewhere, live on. After aeons of adversity, Australia’s living fossils often survive only in protected habitats: the Wollemi, Huon and King Billy pines, the Queens
  
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• From blackening skies to barely casting a shadow – the Carnaby’s cockatoo faces a bleak future

  06-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystemsExplore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this electionGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailLess than a lifetime ago, great flocks of Carnaby’s cockatoos cast large shadows over Perth. Now, the long-term clearing of eucalypt fo
  
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• Endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for them – video

  06-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Eva Czislowski, a student and activist, says Carnaby’s black cockatoos used to blacken the sky. ‘I can't believe that I won't be able to experience that,' she says. The endemic WA bird is just one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat, in what scientists are calling an extinction crisisFrom blackening skies to barely casting a shadow – the Carnaby’s cockatoo faces a bleak future Continue reading...
  
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• Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?

  06-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?Explore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this electionGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailMost parliamentarians might be surprised to learn it, but Australians care about nature. Late last year, the not-for-profit Biodiversity Council commissioned a su
  
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• ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

  06-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animalsAbove the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.“This is the soul of the project,” says Beth Pratt, regional executive director, California, at t
  
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• The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay

  06-04-2025 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays moreBritain is facing an unusual crisis: carspreading. Our road vehicles are getting bigger as people buy more and more SUVs of increasing dimensions and weight. At the same time, our streets and parking places remain the same size.The consequences of this uncontrolled vehicular expansion have become profound. Potholes are being created in greater numbers as our roads are pounded by hea
  
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