03-04-2008
There was a report on mammal extinxtions and other still likley to go extinct in Australia last night on the ABC. I thought it was a terable example of reporting as it hardly ever mentioned the reasons these smaller animals are dieing is the introduced preditors like foxes and cats.
The example they gave was of a colony of rock walabies which lived in a national park. The rangers found that the rest had disapeared and it was down to one female. They then relocated others to the location to keep the colony going without mentioning why the others died or if they did anything to stop it happening again. This was given as a good outcome.
There was little mention of fenced areas set up to exclude preditors or captive breeding buy zoos.
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