Associate Professor Hero says he is worried about people becoming complacent and tired of efforts to save Queensland’s most endangered animals.
He says while there are positive signs for the bilby population, the day should encourage people to consider the impact of humans on native animals.
“They’ve declined in range by nearly 99 per cent of their former range in Queensland and if we’re losing an animal like that, we are doing something drastically wrong,” he said.
“This is just a reminder that we really need to look after this planet and these landscapes if we want to survive ourselves.”
Currawinya will join an expanding network of LTER sites in Queensland (Karawatha near Brisbane, Lake Broadwater near Dalby and Cooloola National Park on the Sunshine Coast) as part of an international PPBio LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research Site) system
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