15 Apr 2015

NZ's biodiversity decline - why can't it be halted?

From Nine To Noon, 9:39 am on 15 April 2015

40 per cent of our native birds are considered threatened or at risk of extinction. Native plants fare no better, and 85 per cent of native lizards are threatened. Marie Brown is a policy analyst for the Environmental Defence Society and one of the authors of a new book called Vanishing Nature, a comprehensive analysis of the state of New Zealand's biodiversity.