Carranya

A flurry of reports have appeared recently addressing our high level of diversity, how it is declining, and what we are doing about it. The short answer is that Australia is classified as megadiverse, this is declining rapidly, and we are doing very little about it. The good news is that we classify as one of the 17 megadiverse countries across the world (see image from Wikipedia), that collectively support >147,000 documented species (7.8% of global total, Chapman 2009): >8,000…