{"id":1637,"date":"2019-02-21T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:15:04","slug":"bramble-cay-melomys-extinction-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/bramble-cay-melomys-extinction-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bramble Cay Melomys extinction the tip of the iceberg: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first mammal to go extinct in the world from climate change, the Bramble Cay Melomys, is just the tip of the iceberg, say the Australian Greens.
\n\u201cThis is a national tragedy, but the extinction of the Bramble Cay Melomys is just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d said Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice, Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Australia\u2019s animal extinction crisis.
\n\u201cClimate change is pushing other threatened animals to the brink of extinction, yet the Morrison government\u2019s lack of action means nothing is being done to protect them.\u201d
\n\u201cWe have other animals like the Spectacled Flying Fox where one third of the population dropped dead out of the sky in one afternoon during Queensland\u2019s December heatwave.\u201d
\n\u201cThe recovery plan for the Melomys was never implemented. The Morrison government could have done more but turned a blind eye.\u201d
\n\u201cThis tragedy was entirely preventable. No species should go extinct. This is a political choice.\u201d
\n\u201cThe burning and exporting of Australia\u2019s coal is the single largest contribution to climate change that Australia makes.\u00a0Australia\u2019s addiction to coal and coal exports is the death warrant for many of our other threatened animals.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Labor and Liberal parties<\/a>\u00a0need to quit coal now and stop taking millions of dollars in donations from the coal industry.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s also clear\u00a0the Environment Department has learnt absolutely nothing<\/a>\u00a0from the tragic Melomys extinction, with no current plans in place to conduct a review into how the extinction of the Bramble Cay Melomys occurred or learn what must happen to ensure more species don\u2019t follow it down the tragic path to extinction.\u201d
\nOther animals at risk of extinction due to climate change include the Spectacled Flying Fox, the Mountain Pygmy Possum, the Lemuroid Possum, and the Northern and Southern Corroboree Frog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first mammal to go extinct in the world from climate change, the Bramble Cay Melomys, is just the tip of the iceberg, say the Australian Greens. \u201cThis is a national tragedy, but the extinction of the Bramble Cay Melomys is just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d said Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice, Chair of … Continue reading “Bramble Cay Melomys extinction the tip of the iceberg: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}