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It costs taxpayers millions to maintain each year and prevents dingoes from suppressing feral meso-predators (cats, foxes) that eat native wildlife

Australia has the world’s longest, contiguous human-made structure in the world – the ‘dog’ fence.

Australia has the highest modern mammal extinction rate on Earth, and declines are continuing.

We have a legacy of deforestation, most notably in south-western Western Australia and Queensland from the mid-1970s to 2000s.

Australia ranks 9th worst in the world for absolute environmental degradation.

I’ve also highlighted some key points from the talk below: So for the benefit of those who couldn’t attend, I’ve uploaded the podcast of my slideshow for general viewing here. The simple truth is that South Australia’s biodiversity and ecosystems are in shambles, yet few seem to appreciate this.

Many people came up afterwards and congratulated me for “being brave enough to tell the truth”, which both encouraged and distressed me – I am encouraged by the positive feedback, but distressed by the lack of action on the part of our natural resource management leaders.

Unfortunately, I’m missing today’s talks because of an acute case of man cold, but at least I can stay at home and work while sipping cups of hot tea. Yesterday I gave the second keynote address at the South Australia Natural Resource Management (NRM) Science Conference at the University of Adelaide (see also a brief synopsis of Day 1 here). South Australia State budget percentage expenditures for health, education and environment