‘Really sad moment’: bogong moth among 124 Australian additions to endangered species list
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They were once so common, swarms of Australian bogong moths almost seemed to ‘block out the moon’ at certain times of the year.
Now, the bogong has been listed as endangered on the global red list of threatened species after crashes in its population in recent years.
The list, compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, was updated overnight with 124 new entries for Australian wildlife.
The addition of the bogong moth, famously seen in swarms at Parliament House in Canberra during its annual migration to the Australian Alps, should be a wake-up call about declines in Australia’s invertebrates, the scientist Marissa Parrott said.
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