The Met Gala and its fashionista A-listers on Monday included Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and a parade of others in a swirl of flora and fauna looks on a green-tinged carpet lined by live foliage.

Australia will target to have “zero new extinctions” in a bid to protect plants and animals on the island continent famed for species found nowhere else in the world, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday.