The Vanishing Wild

Name: The Vanishing Wild
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ISBN: 9781761170393

Australian wildlife and the fight against extinction

Justine E. Hausheer

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NewSouth Publishing
01 May 2026

Mathematics & Sciences; Management of land & natural resources; Endangered species & extinction of species; Global warming; The countryside, country life

'I'm listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the escarpment...'

Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, and yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation.

In this book Justine E. Hausheer encounters the pygmy possums who live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina's rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot, and meets the adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger.

The Vanishing Wild shows us the harsh reality of the extinction crisis

as well as the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia's native species.

By: Justine E. Hausheer
Imprint: NewSouth Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781761170393
ISBN 10: 1761170392
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Justine E. Hausheer is a science writer for The Nature Conservancy. Her favourite stories take her into the field, where she's followed logging elephants through Myanmar, surveyed for sea cucumbers in Manus, and waded into outback waterholes. Her stories have won awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. She holds a master's degree from New York University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She now lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.