Mariculture interest in the Tridacnidae family of giant clams has increased in response to economic and nutritional opportunities, but also in response to increasing reports of local extinctions as a result of over-harvesting, pollution, and habitat degradation. Key impediments to culturing giant clams for stock restoration initiatives include larval mortality, typically 96%, and a lack...

Drawing on research conducted by the Climate Change Ecology Group at Macquarie University, this report finds that climate change is likely to have a negative impact on Australian species, with some already experiencing its effects. Almost 40 per cent of mammal extinctions globally in the last 200 years have occurred in Australia. This continent is...

Australia is home to more than one million species of plants and animals,manyofwhicharefoundnowhereelseonEarth.About85percentof Australia’s flowering plants, 84 per cent of its mammals, 89 per cent of its reptiles, 93 per cent of its frogs, 45 per cent of its birds and 85 per cent of inshorefreshwaterfishareuniquetoAustralia. TheStateoftheEnvironment Report(2006)notedthatwhileAustralia’sbiodiversityisofincalculablevalue, biodiversitycontinuestodeclineandfacesongoingpressures