On Our Watch: The Race To Save Australia's Environment

by Nicola Markus

Our stewardship of this country's natural assets over the past two hundred years has been appalling, and on the current trajectory of careless environmental pillaging, further massive decline would be a certainty . The future of the environment is being decided on our watch .Australia faces unique conservation challenges that most Australians do not know enough about. On Our Watch is an attempt to remedy this situation.Respected conservationist Nicola Markus believes that it is time people realised that our environmental issues are not being solved by those tasked with their solution, and that the support and involvement of the public is essential if we are to make a difference in environmental conservation.In this thoroughly researched and passionately written book, Markus explains the very real and immediate threats to Australia's natural environment and cuts through the spin to show how you can become involved in conserving our environmental heritage.

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2009

Reviews

[Oanh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and a bit depressing. The first few chapters seemed like a catalogue of animals and plants becoming extinct in Australia. This book was written as a call to action, focussed primarily at the incoming Rudd government. I think little has changed and certainly not quickly enough. But it is an excellent primer on the issues in Aus and the multi-faceted approach needed to address those issues. The key lesson, however, is that agricultural practises are the single most damaging thing for the Aus environment and government does nothing - or very little, which in terms of Aus' fragile environment may as well be nothing - to redress the damage.

[Sarah Clement · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wanted a book that would teach me more about environmental issues in Australia, but unfortunately this book was not it. Not only was it at a very basic level, it was full of broad, sweeping statements that seemed to increasingly outweigh the informative content of the book.