The Threatened Species Recovery Hub

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The conservation of Australia’s biodiversity is founded on an extensive reserve system, good environmental legislation and stable governance. Our community is relatively affluent and interested, and our human population density is comparatively low. Yet, more plant and mammal species have been rendered extinct in Australia than any other country.

Since European settlement, 30 Australian native mammals have become extinct. To put this in a global context, one out of every three mammal extinctions in the past 400 years have occurred in Australia. And the rate of decline continues unabated. More than 1,700 species of animals and plants are listed by the Australian Government as being at risk of extinction.