Quarterly Essay 48 After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis
By Tim Flannery, By Gideon Haigh
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Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave our national parks as "marsupial ghost towns." Why are species becoming extinct despite the tens of millions of dollars being
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Quarterly Essay 48 After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis
9781921870835
Quarterly Essay
7 November 2012
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English
Environment & Ecology: General Interest
General/trade
Applied ecology
Central government policies
Conservation of the environment
Endangered species & extinction of species
Environmental economics
Environmental policy & protocols
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Management & management techniques
Management: leadership & motivation
Natural history
Pollution & threats to the environment
Wildlife: general interest
Central government policies
Conservation of the environment
Endangered species & extinction of species
Environmental economics
Environmental policy & protocols
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Management & management techniques
Management: leadership & motivation
Natural history
Pollution & threats to the environment
Wildlife: general interest
Author Biography
Tim Flannery is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Future Eaters, Throwim Way Leg, The Weather Makers, Now or Never and Here on Earth. In 2007, he was the Australian of the Year. He is currently Chief Commissioner of Australiaas Climate Commission.