The latest checklist of Table Mountain flora shows that Cape Town is still a global hotspot for threatened flowering plants.
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The future of scrub mints could be in jeopardy because of climate change, development and misclassification.
A project in Melbourne’s Royal Park has proved city parks and streets can be used as sites for nature repair that help endangered ecosystems and species to survive.
Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the endangered E. woodii cycad using drones and AI.
Spread by the wind, the fungal rusts are among the most feared of all plant diseases. A 2016 myrtle rust outbreak on Lord Howe Island was contained, but now its unique plants are again under threat.
Do you know zoopharmacognosy is? Some animals use trees to treat themselves.
Saving our threatened species shouldn’t be seen as a cost, but rather a very savvy investment to ensure the support systems sustaining life on Earth remain intact.
Many threatened plant species aren’t being targeted for conservation. Identifying which are closest to being lost forever is the first step to protect them.
Glaciers support a unique community of plants, many of which are found nowhere else.
Australia’s plants help make our landscapes unique. But many are in grave danger of extinction, and in many cases, the problem is getting worse.
How fast can an animal run? How intense was the fire? Picking which species to help after a bushfire tragedy is no easy task.
Fish, frogs, turtles and platypus at major risk of extinction following the bushfires. So why aren’t they getting much attention?
Without an emergency cull of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park, the land cannot recover from the bushfires – and threatened species are at grave risk of being annihilated.
In a matter of weeks, the fires have subverted decades of dedicated conservation efforts for many threatened species.
Human-driven land clearing and climate change are sending plants extinct at a rapid rate, risking a devastating biodiversity crash.
Our work represents the first assessment of what social and economic factors are connected to environmental degradation across the entire African continent.
A recent global survey found almost 600 plants have gone extinct. And this figure is likely to be an underestimate.
This small herb hadn’t been seen on Macquarie Island since it was first recorded in 1983, despite several searches over the next 30 years.
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University
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Professor of Plant Ecology, Durham University
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Judith and David Coffey Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, The University of Western Australia
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Catedrático de universidad en el área de Botánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Professor Emeritus in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Botany, UNSW
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Researcher, Stellenbosch University