Some estimates suggest that around half a billion animals have burnt to death in the state of New South Wales alone.
In an interview with UN News, John Scanlon, Special Envoy for the African Parks non-profit organization and former Secretary-General of CITES – the UN-backed Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species – said that the increasing threat to biodiversity must be “lifted up to the international agenda”.
The Australian-born environment and conservation expert spoke to Julia Dean from our UN Information Centre in Canberra.
