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Updated Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:27pm AEST

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-13/new-national-park-proposal-to-save-the-leadbeaters/4884744?section=vic

The leading expert on Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum, says the creature faces certain extinction if governments don’t take urgent action. Professor David Lindenmayer of the ANU says one thing that’s absolutely essential is the creation of a new national park, protected from logging, in the mountain forests east of Melbourne.