The Vanishing Wild by Justine E Hausheer
' I' m listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the escarpment...' Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation.In this book, award-winning science writer Justine E. Hausheer encounters pygmy possums that live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina' s rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot and meets adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger.The Vanishing Wild immerses us in the harsh reality of the extinction crisis - and shows us the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia' s native species.
‘Riveting, deeply alarming, shocking yet hopefulA vitally important contribution to popular science.' – Darryl Jones
Justine E. Hausheer is a science writer for the Nature Conservancy. Her favourite stories take her into the field, where she's followed logging elephants through Myanmar, surveyed for sea cucumbers in Manus, and waded into outback waterholes. Her stories have won awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America and have been featured in the Best Australian Science Writing anthology. She holds a master's degree from New York University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She now lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781761170393 |
| ISBN 10 | 1761170392 |
| Title | The Vanishing Wild |
| Author | Justine E Hausheer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | NewSouth Publishing |
| Year published | 2026-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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