This tally alarmingly shows that\nthe number of extinct Australian species<\/strong> is much higher than previously\nthought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Counts of extinct Australian\nspecies<\/strong> vary. There are a total 92 extinct Australian plants and animals\nthat are on the list of the federal government. However, on this list, 20 are\nsubspecies, 5 are now known to still exist in Australia and 7 surviving\noverseas. So, reducing the figure to 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The states and territories have\nalso maintained their own extinction<\/strong> lists, and the International Union\nfor Conservation of Nature keeps the Red List, a global database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A research\u00a0collects and combines these separate listings. Species that still exist overseas are excluded from the list, such as the\u00a0water tassel-fern. Some species that, happily, have been rediscovered since being listed as\u00a0extinct, or which are no longer recognized as valid species have also been excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conclusion showed that there\nare 100 plants and animals\u2019 species that validly listed as having become\nextinct in the 230 years. Our tally includes three species listed as extinct in\nthe wild, with two of these species still existing in captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 100 extinctions<\/strong> are\ndrawn from formal lists but many extinctions<\/strong> are not official and valid.\nThere are other species that disappeared before their existence was even recorded.\nMore such species have not been seen for decades, and some scientists and\nIndigenous groups suspect that they are lost. We theorize that the actual tally\nof extinct Australian species<\/strong> is likely to be about ten times greater\nthan we derived from official lists. Biodiversity loss is the biggest loss than\nextinctions<\/strong> alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 100 identified extinctions<\/strong>\ncarried the loss of Indigenous land management, its replacement with entirely\nnew land uses and new settlers introducing species with little regard to deleterious\nimpacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia’s fine national reserve\nsystem and threat management help the prospects of some species by legal\nprotection. But these gains are overthrown by the legacy of previous habitat\nloss and fragmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our planet\u2019s own population\nincrease is causing much habitat loss, and new threats such as climate change, are\nthe reason for more frequent and intense droughts and bushfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Environmental laws<\/strong> have also majorly\u00a0failed to stem the extinction<\/strong> crisis<\/strong>. The national laws are now under review and the\u00a0federal government has indicated\u00a0that protections may be wound back. Now, this is not the time to\u00a0weaken\u00a0environmental laws further. Nature has incurred great costs for the creation of modern Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s understandable that non-sustainable human activities are\u00a0damaging our planet\u2019s health. The way we use our planet threatens our future and that of many plants and animals.\u00a0Species extinction\u00a0is an unavoidable endpoint. The loss of Australian nature is important to be quantified accurately. It will be difficult putting an exact figure on the number of extinct species. 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