Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat
- Written by Andy Sheppard, Research Director CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO
Barking Owls are one of Australia’s 1,770 threatened or endangered species.
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This week many people across the world stopped and stared as extreme headlines announced that one eighth of the world’s species – more than a million – are threatened with extinction.
According to the UN report from the...
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