Extract: Conserving Australia’s environment as it is today will become increasingly impossible as the world warms, so governments should instead focus on managing environments as they change, the CSIRO says. A new report, says the impact of climate change on plants, animals and ecosystems will be “significant” by 2030 and “extreme” by 2070. “This is likely to see the emergence of new environments and the disappearance of many existing environments,” the CSIRO study states.

Australia’s national science agency suggests the species-by-species approach will be more difficult to manage with a dramatic rise in the number of species vulnerable to extinction. It could be a matter of “conserve the stage not the actors”. “Many of the environments our plants and animals currently exist in will disappear from the continent,” lead researcher Dr Michael Dunlop said in a statement. “Our grandchildren are likely to experience landscapes that are very different to the ones we have known.” Full story from SBS and AAP here.