Our study shows managers can have confidence in rapid assessments of extinction risk and it has great potential as a tool for quickly responding to megadisturbances. We also believe the project shows comprehensive assessments of the Australian flora are within reach given the right resourcing 3/4

The rapid assessments accurately identified species as threatened in 84% of cases despite much less time and data per species. Importantly they were accurate in identifying Critically Endangered species (67%) and Endangered species (54%). 2/4

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4

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We found a decline in feral honeybees will be good news for some plants and bad news for others. But we found major gaps in our knowledge of how honeybees influence native plant pollination and pollinators. The loss of feral honeybees due to varroa mite is an opportunity to fill these gaps 2/5

Our conceptual model considered 5 key aspects required for threat management to be applied to species and found that for each aspect there was evidence that the policy had been effective but also was also falling short of achieving threat mitigation for all species that needed it. 3/4

We wanted to see whether a policy aimed at protecting threatened plants from being burned too often by prescribed fire was working in southeast Australia. To do this we realised we needed to step back and look more broadly at the science-policy-management framework around the threat. 2/4