Threatened Species Day

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Threatened Species of Australia… sadly a long list

(photo by Henricus Peters at Lone Pine Sanctuary) On 7 September, 1936, Australia’s Tasmanian tiger – the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), slipped over the extinction line. Sixty years later, in 1996, WWF-Australia’s Threatened Species Network and the Australian Government established National Threatened Species Day to commemorate the death of the last Tasmanian tiger at Hobart Zoo. Over  under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, and after the catastrophic bushfires in 2019-20 with nearly 3 billion animals impacted, many of...

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