Australia's extinction crisis

摘要

Professor Tim Flannery's latest Quarterly Essay returns to the issues that have motivated him as a sdentist and palaeontologist and to his books The Future Eaters and Here on Earth. In After the Future, Flannery tells the story of human impact on our continent, from the time of large mammals extinction to today. He includes the loss of Aboriginal land management skills as they were moved off their land and into missions, the pioneering research of zoologist Alan Marshall on more recent extinctions, and the restorative work of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.