The threat to species from climate change should provoke shame in our hearts

 ‘Climate change from unprecedented carbon
emissions not only threaten the habitats of
our unique animals and birds, but also
challenges the very ability of them to survive.’ 

While Australia bakes through another hot, angry summer, its precious wildlife is increasingly under threat, not just from the extreme weather of fires and floods but by the growing reality of a changing climate.

It is getting hotter. Day by day, month by month, year by year – 2016 is confirmed as the hottest year on record globally, closely following the leads of 2015 and 2014 – and with summer in full swing in Australia we turn our minds and our national concerns to bushfires, ever more intense, and to extreme weather events, flash flooding, cyclonic winds, unexpected parching and flooding of our wide brown land.

And it is not just the Australian people who are feeling these stresses first hand, but some of the most unique wildlife to be found anywhere in the world.

Read Tim Flannery’s story on The Guardian - “The threat to species from climate change should provoke shame in our hearts.”