'Worst it's ever been': a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign - and is ignored

Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf earsGuardian Australia's full federal election coverageGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingGregory Andrews was Australia's first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened by what he found.Andrews believes the state of the country's natural wildlife and biodiversity is the "worst it's ever been" and calls the ongoing destruction of forests and other habitat "crazy". Continue reading...