Category: endangered animal

Australia’s Rare Potoroos Bouncing Back After Bushfires

March 16, 2022
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An increased number of potoroos—a rabbit-sized kangaroo—has been detected in the Barry Mountains, a bushfire impacted area in Victoria, as the endangered marsupial shows signs of recovery after the Black Summer bushfires destroyed over 70 percent of its habitat. In Dec. 2021, a remote camera monitoring survey conducted in the area by the government’s Bushfire…

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Pregnant Koala Inspires Hope After Species Saving Vaccine

January 26, 2022
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Australian researchers have developed a vaccine for koalas to combat an extensive outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases in the species. Koala’s, which have been hit hard by changing climatic conditions, bushfires, and land clearing, are under pressure from an ongoing chlamydia outbreak that is causing the marsupials to become infertile and further pushing the species towards…

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Giant Sheep Dogs To Protect Endangered Bandicoots

December 21, 2020
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In a historic moment in Australian conservation history, two giant, guardian dogs are protecting a recently released population of 20 gravely threatened bandicoots, by ignoring them. With a little help from the dogs and some sheep in the grasslands of Skipton in Victoria’s southwest, the embattled native species of Eastern Barred Bandicoots have a chance…

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