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A state of extinction?

December 7, 2012. Bridie Smith. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-state-of-extinction-20121206-2ay41.html Bushfires and logging have taken a terrible toll on the habitat of the rare Leadbeater’s possum. How long can it survive? Bridie Smith and Tom Arup...

The decline and fall of the forest’s grand old masters

December 10, 2012. Bridie Smith. http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-forests-grand-old-masters-20121209-2b3ln.html RESEARCHERS have put the globe’s big old trees on a par with animals such as whales, lions and tigers that have low...

Sending Leadbeater’s Possum down the road to extinction

14 December 2012, 2.28pm AEST Author David Lindenmayer Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National Universityhttp://theconversation.edu.au/sending-leadbeaters-possum-down-the-road-to-extinction-11249We have studied the effects of...

Extinction alarm raised for possum

Tom Arup and Bridie Smith. December 17, 2012. http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/extinction-alarm-raised-for-possum-20121216-2bhid.html A TEAM of scientists and conservationists is pushing to escalate Victoria’s faunal emblem, Leadbeater’s...

Possum’s best mate

By Kath Gannaway. 21st February 2012 02:00:28 AM http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/mail/mountain-views/332/story/148995.html As someone who has made the bus and train trip into Melbourne’s Supreme Court for every sitting of what he says is a gruelling battle...