WWF spokeswoman Tammie Matson said the country already has the worst rate of mammal extinction in the world, with close to 40 percent of global mammal extinctions in the last 200 years.

• 世界自然基金会发言人麦特森表示，过去两百年来，澳洲哺乳类绝种数目佔全球总数近四成，居全世界之首。