The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]

Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.

Hausheer encounters pygmy possums in the Snowy Mountains, hears bitterns in the Riverina rice fields, crouches in spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot — and meets the fat-tailed dunnarts whose biology is being studied as a possible key to de-extincting the Tasmanian tiger.

We stock this book in The Book Cellar because the thylacine thread runs through it — anyone interested in the ongoing science around thylacine de-extinction will find the dunnart research discussed here directly relevant.

At 322 indexed pages with colour photographs, this covers the full range of Australia's extinction crisis and the conservation responses being mounted.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 322 pages, indexed.
• Colour photograph section.
• Published 2026 by New South.

CONDITION

New.

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