Since European occupation of Australia, human activities have caused the dramatic decline
and sometimes extinction of many of the continent's unique species. Here we provide a …

Globally, freshwater fishes are declining at an alarming rate. Despite much evidence of
catastrophic declines, few Australian species are listed as threatened under national …

Monitoring is critical to assess management effectiveness, but broadscale systematic
assessments of monitoring to evaluate and improve recovery efforts are lacking. We …

Northern Australian biomes hold high biodiversity values within largely intact vegetation
complexes, yet many species of mammals, and some other taxa, are endangered. Recently …

Bias toward legally protecting and prioritizing charismatic taxonomic groups, such as
mammals and birds, and against others, such as insects and plants, is well documented …

Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis, having already lost 10% of terrestrial mammal
fauna since European settlement and with hundreds of other species at high risk of …

Australia's national environmental legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) has been criticized for failing to mitigate the national …

Despite exponential increases in the coverage of protected areas (PAs) over recent
decades, global biodiversity continues to decline. One explanation for this lack of success is …

Species distribution models are an essential tool for biodiversity conservation, with important
applications such as spatial prioritisation of conservation actions and elucidating …

Aim Identification of particular traits that predispose species to elevated extinction risk is an
important component of proactive conservation. We capitalise on a recent strategic …