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Article: Farmers save endangered mammal.
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- M2 Presswire
- Article date:
- July 22, 2004
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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 July 2004-CSIRO: Farmers save endangered mammal(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The survival of the endangered Red-tailed Phascogale is being bolstered by efforts of WA farmers and Landcare groups.
Locals in the Wagin region of WA, 200km south of Perth, are joining forces to connect isolated patches of this possum-like mammal's remaining habitat by constructing corridors of native vegetation across their farms.
Once widespread throughout arid Western Australia, Northern Territory, New South Wales and Victoria, the Red-tailed Phascogale has survived only in the Western Australian wheatbelt between ...