Morning Mail: Australia’s wildlife on the brink; climate protester settles with Victoria police; more tariff turmoil looms

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems. Illustration: Meeri Anneli/The Guardian

Good morning. Some of Australia’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink; our new Last chance series is charting the extinction crisis that the federal election is ignoring. The first species we’re highlighting is the Carnaby’s cockatoo, great flocks of which used to blacken the skies over Perth but now cast barely a shadow.

We also report that Victoria police will pay $90,000 to a climate protester who claimed their head was slammed into a wall, door and the ground in 2019. Plus: global markets are set to nosedive further this week as Donald Trump’s tariffs kick in and world leaders weigh up retaliatory action.