Australia’s environment could be fixed and threatened species saved for just 0.3% of GDP, experts say

The greater glider. A new blueprint for Australia sets out 24 actions to save threatened species, repair soils and fix over-allocated and fragmented river systems. Photograph: Stephanie Jackson/Australian wildlife collection/Alamy

Saving Australia’s threatened wildlife, repairing degraded land and restoring ailing river systems is possible and would cost just 0.3% of Australia’s GDP, according to a new blueprint produced by more than 60 experts.

For the first time scientists, governance and business leaders have produced a dollar estimate of what it would take to fix Australia’s environment.