A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct every ...

An estimated one to three species of insects and other native invertebrates are becoming extinct in Australia every week, ...

There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

Scientists say more than 9,000 non-marine invertebrate species have gone extinct in Australia since Europeans arrived in 1788 ...

The Bulloak Jewel (Hypochrysops piceatus) butterfly. Butterflies, bees and beetles are groups of insects at risk. Picture: ...

If Australia is losing one to three invertebrate species per week, the "zero extinctions" goal is pushed into a whole new realm of accountability. Unless we address this decline, that pledge of zero ...