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

Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists estimates $7.3bn a year for 30 years could avoid most extinctions, repair soils and restore rivers

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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.

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