Australian bushfires may have wiped out countless species...

It's easy to attack a teenage girl but I'm sure I remember a group of UN scientists saying we had 12 years to drastically changed our life styles, if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Unfortunately Greta is being used as a diversion from the real issue and I think those who attack her are best ignored.
 
Ned said:
It's easy to attack a teenage girl but I'm sure I remember a group of UN scientists saying we had 12 years to drastically changed our life styles, if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Unfortunately Greta is being used as a diversion from the real issue and I think those who attack her are best ignored.
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Ive never attacked her, I was just questioning her validity. I don’t agree with your 12 years statement.
 
Generally she gets attacked by people who find the idea of climate change inconvenient, and probably because she's female, a teenager and has Asperger (David Attenborough gets far less flack)
It's not my 12 year prediction, I'm not a UN scientist, take it up with them.
 
Welp looks like Ive turned the forum against me because of an opinion.

Ned said:
Generally she gets attacked by people who find the idea of climate change inconvenient, and probably because she's female, a teenager and has Asperger (David Attenborough gets far less flack)
It's not my 12 year prediction, I'm not a UN scientist, take it up with them.
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I thought you were directing it at me
 
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Yoshistar888 said:
Welp looks like Ive turned the forum against me because of an opinion.
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Not at all. You said a couple of silly things and others who are more knowledgeable are correcting you. You’re allowed to make mistakes - the only thing that will set people against you is if you decline to learn from them.
 
I know one of the species that has made headlines for not faring so well in these fires is the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby - perhaps the population on Oahu can help save the species?
 
birdsandbats said:
I know one of the species that has made headlines for not faring so well in these fires is the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby - perhaps the population on Oahu can help save the species?
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The entire Oahu population is descended from only two individuals. So genetically speaking there is not much on offer. There is actually already an established brush-tailed rock wallaby breeding program in some Australian zoos, though I'm not sure of the demographics of the population.
 
Good news another species found to have survived.
The Mount Kaputar Slug which is fluorescent pink. At least sixty have been spotted, the article mentions that the extinct volcano is home to twenty endemic species of snails and slugs but doesn't mention the status of the others.
This pink land slug Triboniophorus aff. graeffe is being used to attract attention to the plight of all the mountains moluscs.

Fluorescent pink slug, unique to Australian mountaintop, survives bushfires
 
Emergency ex situ salvage has been recommended for all the listed invertebrates, fish populations expected to be affected by heavy sediment flow and the Kangaroo Island Dunnart.
 
Here is the provisional list of species earmarked for evacuation based on the data from the fires as of January 11. The list will be refined and most likely not all the 34 species will be evacuated.

Species & Victorian threatened status
Koala -
Large brown tree frog, Endangered
Spotted tree frog, Critically endangered
Eastern bristlebird, Endangered
Eastern ground parrot, Endangered
Glossy black cockatoo, Vulnerable
Australian grayling, Vulnerable
Barred galaxias, Critically endangered
'Cann' galaxias -
Dargo galaxias, Critically endangered
East Gippsland galaxias, Endangered
Flat-headed galaxias, Vulnerable
Gippsland blackfish -
Macquarie perch, Endangered
Mallacoota burrowing Crayfish, Vulnerable
Moroka galaxias -
Mountain galaxias -
River blackfish -
Shaw galaxias, Critically endangered
Yalmy galaxias -
Austral mussel -
Depressed mussel -
Glenelg freshwater mussel, Critically endangered
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby, Critically endangered
Long-footed Potoroo, Vulnerable
Mountain pygmy-possum, Critically endangered
Spot-tailed quoll, Endangered
Alpine she-oak skink, Critically endangered
Alpine water skink, Critically endangered
Eastern she-oak skink, Near threatened
Guthega skink, Critically endangered
Swamp skink, Vulnerable
Yellow-bellied water skink -
 
Ted Hennessey (London Evening Standard, 12 Feb) said that the fires threaten 113 animal species:
19 mammals e.g. platypus, Kangaroo Island dunnart, koala, wallabies
13 birds
20 reptiles e.g. Blue Mountains water skink
17 frogs e.g. Pugh's frog
17 freshwater fish
27 invertebrates e.g. 22 crayfish
 
Dassie rat said:
Ted Hennessey (London Evening Standard, 12 Feb) said that the fires threaten 113 animal species:
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I should have clarified, I think these species I listed are just those identified for immediate response as part of the Victorian effort. Other states will no doubt be responding to their own priority species.
 
kingoffreaks said:
Thank you for this update any mention of where they would be be evacuated to?
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Various. I assume most of the reptiles, frogs, mammals and birds will go to Zoos Victoria properties (Melbourne Healesville and Werribee) and it stated some of the fish and other aquatics would be going to aquaculture facilities
 
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