Australia’s lizards and snakes are in far more trouble than we thought. It’s time to act

Jules Farquhar Australia is a land of lizards and snakes. From common blue-tongues in suburban gardens to rare shovel-nosed snakes in the desert, reptiles are a defining part of the continent’s wildlife. But our new national review, by a team of 23 Australian herpetologists (reptile and amphibian experts), reveals they are in far more trouble than currently recognised. We identified at least 127 threatened terrestrial lizard and snake species. That is 13.1% of the reptile species where enough…