Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery

Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped outExplore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this electionAustralia is justly famous as a place where ancient species, long extinct elsewhere, live on. After aeons of adversity, Australia’s living fossils often survive only in protected habitats: the Wollemi, Huon and King Billy pines, the Queens