Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis

by Tim Flannery

Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave our national parks as "marsupial ghost towns." Why are species becoming extinct despite the tens of millions of dollars being spent to protect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863955828
• ISBN13: 9781863955829
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Black Inc.
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"