The delicate mouse – widespread across Australia – has turned out to be three different species. This will help to save them from habitat loss.
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38 mammals have been driven to extinction since colonisation, and many more are close to joining them. We have the solutions at hand, but warnings continue to be met with mediocre responses.
Quenda are one of few remaining digging mammals in Australian urban bushlands, and fungi is their favourite food.
For phascogales, tree hollows are getting harder to find. I venture into forests and study how well artificial hollows made with chainsaws can replace them.
Small mammals in northern Australia have been rapidly vanishing for the last 30 years, and scientists weren’t sure why. Now, a major new study found feral livestock are largely to blame.
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