We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis

Humans are causing the Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, with an estimated one million species at risk of extinction.

The Christmas Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) became extinct in 2009.

Addressing this crisis requires transformative change, including more effective environmental law and implementation.

Improved legislation is one of five main levers for realising change identified in the recent United Nation’s global biodiversity report and the key lesson arising from the Senate’s interim report into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis.

Read the story from The Conversation - “We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis.”