...and yet, Adelaide and Monarto Zoo's chief executive Chris West probably doesn't LOOK completely insane

Climate change a new horseman of the apocalypse - zoo chief Chris West | NEWS.com.au

THE world's zoos are becoming field hospitals in a war zone, as they try to salvage species from extinction, Adelaide and Monarto Zoo chief executive Chris West says.

"We've watched for too long critical species being overcome by habitat destruction, over-exploitation from logging, fishing and hunting, invasive species, pollution and emergent diseases," Dr West said.

"But now climate change is looming as a huge new horseman of the apocalypse, whose impact threatens to dwarf that of all the others.