Over millions of years, a stable climate helped create this biodiversity hotspot. Climate change now threatens it.
- Deputy Director, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University
Australia’s southwest is a biodiversity hotspot - and it’s also a climate change hotspot. Something has to give.
Twenty of these freshwater fish species have a 50% or greater probability of extinction within the next 20 years.
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