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Animals News tagged with marsupials

Unique Australian Animals-Quokka
Animals  (tags: vulnerable, Australia, marsupials, conservation, Rottnest Island )

Raffi
- 99 days ago - australian-animals.net
The Quokka is a small marsupial like the forest wallabies and tree kangaroo's of eastern Australia. Very active at night, the Quokka sleep (often in small groups) during the day in the shelter of dense vegetation, and at night time
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Sugar Glider - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, marsupials, pets, protected, Australia )

Raffi
- 120 days ago - en.wikipedia.org
The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small marsupial originally native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and introduced to Tasmania.
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Koalas 'May Not Make Endangered List'
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, marsupials, koalas, loophole, endangerd species list, extinction, endangered, protection )

Jacquelin
- 247 days ago - bigpondnews.com
Bureaucrats have found a loophole which is preventing Queensland's dwindling koala population from being listed as critically endangered, the AKF says. AKF chief executive Deborah Tabart said the delay in listing the animals as critically endangered wo
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Koala Expert Shoots Down Dwarf Theory
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, marsupials, koalas, dwarfs?, theory, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 326 days ago - abc.net.au
Australia's iconic koala is not a dwarf and the finding has major implications for theories on what happened to the continent's prehistoric megafauna, a Queensland palaeontologist says. Dr Gilbert Price, of the University of Queensland's Centre for Mic
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Too Late for Koala Protection
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, marsupials, koalas, protection, extinction, endangered )

Jacquelin
- 334 days ago - thedaily.com.au
The Sunshine Coast Environment Council yesterday said the state government's proposed koala protection policy came a decade too late. While sustainability minister Andrew McNamara plans to introduce a raft of measures to protect koalas, including mappi
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Koalas to Get Cane Farm Land in $12m Plan
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, marsupials, koalas, cane farm, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 337 days ago - news.com.au
CANE farming land could be seized and reforested in the State Government's plans to save southeast Queensland's declining koala population. The Environmental Protection Agency will have the power to acquire land outside the urban footprint, provided it
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Give a Sick Koala for Xmas - Australia/World
Animals  (tags: austral, ia, adoption, animals, present, gift, koalas, chritmas, new south wales, hospital, marsupials, good news, Good news story )

Chrissy
- 340 days ago - news.com.au
A New South Wales animal hospital which cares for injured koalas is encouraging people to adopt one of its recuperating marsupials as a Christmas gift for family and friends. The Koala Hospital, in Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid north coast, of
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Tebbutt Launches $1.2m Koala Recovery Progam
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, marsupials, koalas, endangered, extinction, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 343 days ago - smh.com.au
The NSW government is leading the way to boost dwindling koala populations, launching the country's first program to protect the national icon. NSW Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt said a state-wide survey conducted by the Department of Education an
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Variation Is Genetic Key to Survival
Animals  (tags: australia, wildanimals, wildlife, marsupials, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 605 days ago - theage.com.au
THE black-footed rock wallaby. The northern hairy-nosed wombat. Gilbert's potoroo. What is the common link between these animals? All are endangered Australian marsupials and all suffer from a lack of genetic variation. It is this lack of variation tha
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Why Conserve Marsupials?
Animals  (tags: animals, conservation, marsupials, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 646 days ago - cosmosmagazine.com
As a biologist, I take the importance of the natural world for granted and see it as imperative that we protect biological diversity from the more destructive effects of human activity. But this is not a universal view and it is still, surprisingly, quite
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Native Bird Threat a Myna Matter
Animals  (tags: australia, wildanimals, wildlife, birds, invasive species, attack, marsupials, sugergliders, native birds, threat )

Jacquelin
- 647 days ago - hawkesbury.yourguide.com.au
ITS chocolate-brown coat and startling yellow eye-patch is hard to ignore, but the Indian Myna is attracting attention in the Hawkesbury for another reason. Labelled as one of the World's Worst 100 Invasive Species by the World Conservation Union, the In
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Sugarglider.Com - Gliderpedia - Sugar Glider - (Petaurus Breviceps)
Animals  (tags: australia, new guinea, indonesiapets, wildlife, wildanimals, society, animals, environment, habitat, humans, sugar gliders, marsupials, arboreal )

Thunderr
- 650 days ago - sugarglider.com
A small arboreal marsupial that is found in the forests of Australia,Tasmania,New Guinea,and the islands of Indonesia.This little creature belongs to the same order as kangaroos,tasmanian devils.Thick soft grey mink-like fur with a fulllength black stripe
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Kangaroo Island Wildlife Lost in South Australia Fire Storm - Australia
Animals  (tags: australia. kangaroo island, bush fire, south australia, marsupials, native animals, birds, kangaroos, deaths )

Chrissy
- 698 days ago - abc.net.au
A wildlife sanctuary on Kangaroo Island, near Flinders Chase national park, says it has taken in thousands of native birds and animals escaping the island's bushfires. There have been fires burning since last Thursday when lightning sparked blazes across
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