“Man is no longer the Creator's "steward", but an autonomous despot, who is finally beginning to understand that he must stop at the edge of the abyss.” (Pope John Paul II)
Dodo; Tasmanian Tiger; Quagga; Caspian Tiger; Steller’s Sea Cow; Pallas Cormorant; Great Auk; Passenger Pigeon; Lesser Bilby; Lesser Stick-nest Rat; Short-tailed, Long-tailed, Big-eared and Darling Downs Hopping Mice, Desert Bandicoot, Gould’s Mouse and the Gastric Brooding Frog. This is just a very short list of some species that have become extinct at our hands. Australia has the worst rate of mammal extinction in the world with 27 species becoming extinct in the last 200 years. Likely to join them soon are the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Bat, Lord Howe Island Phasamid, Mountain Pygmy-Possum, Leadbeater’s Possum, Spotted-tailed Quoll, Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Dibbler, Mahogany Glider, Red-tailed Phascogale, Orange Roughy, Grey-nurse Shark and possibly the Tasmanian Devil, Tiger, Elephant, Panda, Polar Bear and Blue Whale.
In memory of Steven M. Wise
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