CRUMBS

CONSERVATION

What about the world around us?

Just how much of our planet do we need to preserve to ensure animals can continue to exist alongside humans?

CLIMATE CHANGE IS GETTING SOME SERIOUS HEAT within the media and no matter what your stance may be, it’s getting harder to deny that when environmental issues hit, animals are regularly impacted.

This year has seen some huge environmental disasters, from Japan’s typhoon to the Amazon fires. Closer to home, we’ve seen the effects of the Queensland fires as well as droughts across Australia. Images of animals being given water or shelter in these critical times fill the internet, although many are feeling it’s not enough.

One such person is famed biologist E.O. Wilson, who in recent years has argued that humans should set aside half of Earth as nature. Given the rate of human growth and overpopulation within cities, it can seem like a daunting and ambitious proposition but it could potentially stave off mass extinction, including