because fires have always burned in Australia, there's historical resilience. "It's a very different landscape now to before the Europeans arrived," he tells the BBC. Getty Images Most animals ...

Once found in tropical oceans around the world, the largetooth sawfish’s range has shrunk by an estimated 60 percent in a decade.

A fluffy native mouse is among the Australian animals added to the international red list of threatened species, with conservationists warning of an escalating global extinction crisis.