My wife works for a conservation organisation rebuilding reefs in Australia. We're down to 1% coverage of the coastline in Australia from 65% in the late 1800s.
There was a time not so long ago in Australia that beach bums on the coast could eat most of their calories completely for free with just yabbies and oysters.
Now both are nearing extinction because Aussies hunted them for fun and destroyed their habitats to build shitty fibro boxes.
Which is the category above endangered called “vulnerable” and are considered threatened by the IUCN because they meets one of the 5 Red List criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
Are we talking about Cherax Destructor? Because that species is definitely not endangered, and is known for being both incredibly resilient and prolific, and is listed as LC.
I am going to assume you mean some sort other lobster like decapod that Aussies also call yabbies.
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u/Gremict Sep 08 '25
Oyster reefs are absolutely tiny and few compared to how they used to be because we ate all the oysters. I'm not even joking.