Can Australias Remaining biodiversity Co-Exist with Industri

Australia is one of the world's most biologically diverse countries, with a high proportion of its species unique to this country. Biodiversity is a term used to describe the biological diversity or variety of life: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, the genes they contain, and the ecosystems they form (EPA, 2003).

Heritage is considered those valuable features of our environment that we seek to conserve from the ravagers of development and decay (Davidson & McConville, 1991). Natural Heritage is considered as places such as national parks, biodiversity habitats, geological sites and museum collections, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific, or social significance for future and well as the present generations (Albrecht, 2003).

Biodiversity has many benefits, including the maintenance of soil fertility and the improvement of agricultural product qualities and yields (Pearson, 2003). Biodiversity also enables the development of many medicines and industrial products. The natural areas that are set aside to maintain biodiversity, provide educational and recreational opportunities and community groups to better understan

Declines in wildlife have occurred in most parts of Australia since European colonisation. Over the past 200 years 17 mammal species are thought to have become extinct here. Fewer than 25 species are believed to have become extinct in the rest of the world over the same period, which means that Australia accounts for over 40% of the world's mammalian extinctions since 1800-10. Intensive land use, which has played a part in the decline, has been concentrated in the south and east of the country. Habitat loss, through cropping, grazing, forestry, mining and human settlements, has dramatically changed vegetation cover. The 1996 State of the Environment report assessed that since 1788:

- almost 90% of temperate woodlands and mallee had been cleared;

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