The highly distinctive and mostly endemic Australian land mammal fauna has suffered an
extraordinary rate of extinction (>10% of the 273 endemic terrestrial species) over the last ∼…

Feral cats are among the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and are implicated in
many extinctions, especially in Australia, New Zealand and other islands. Understanding …

The 2019–2020 megafires in Australia brought a tragic loss of human life and the most
dramatic loss of habitat for threatened species and devastation of ecological communities in …

The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation
status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (…

Australia’s 2019–2020 mega-fires were exacerbated by drought, anthropogenic climate change
and existing land-use management. Here, using a combination of remotely sensed data …

Every year large proportions of northern Australia's tropical savanna landscapes are burnt,
resulting in high fire frequencies and short intervals between fires. The dominant fire …

This article provides a context to, attempts an explanation for, and proposes a response to
the recent demonstration of rapid and severe decline of the native mammal fauna of Kakadu …

Context. Australia has a lamentable history of mammal extinctions. Until recently, the
mammal fauna of northern Australia was presumed to have been spared such loss, and to be …

Feral cats (Felis catus) have devastated wildlife globally. In Australia, feral cats are implicated
in most recent mammal extinctions and continue to threaten native species. Cat control is a …

Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent
extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved…