Say Goodbye
Cathy Wilcox
The five-yearly 2021 State of the Environment report was released in July 2022. It found that climate change was increasing pressure on every ecosystem on the continent, and that the number of species listed as threatened had increased by 8 per cent. The report also stated that Australia had lost more mammal species than any other continent.
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