Continental-Scale Governance and the Hastening of Loss of Australia's Biodiversity

摘要: Against a global backdrop of rapid environmental change, conserving biodiversity poses one the biggest and most important challenges to society. For this reason, systems nature reserves have never been more important. Protected areas are under threat in many parts world (Mascia & Pailler 2011), but weakening protected rich, developed country with reputation for conservation leadership (Harrison 2006) is particularly alarming (Ritchie 2013). Consequently, we concerned about recent spate substantial policy, legislative, management changes being made by three six Australian state governments exploitative uses national parks—actions that could affect much Australia negative effects on biodiversity.