Australia is the planet's extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hope
On an island just off the coast is one of the last surviving pockets of the world's rarest marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo. For others it is eliminating their food or their homes.Climate change is also driving natural disasters which fry and drown both plants and animals with now frightening regularity. The infamous Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, for example, killed an estimated three billion animals.
- ▪On an island just off the coast is one of the last surviving pockets of the world's rarest marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo.
- ▪For others it is eliminating their food or their homes.Climate change is also driving natural disasters which fry and drown both plants and animals with now frightening regularity.
- ▪The infamous Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, for example, killed an estimated three billion animals.
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Australia is the planet's extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hopePublished5 minutes agoImage source, Getty Images/Sharon Jones/BBCByTiffanie TurnbullReporting fromDryandra, Western Australia"Eyes peeled," comes the order from the front passenger seat.Obediently, we scan the ends and tops of logs, looking between low scrub and patches of vivid wildflowers for a flash of stripes or a dart of movement.Eluding us is the numbat, a rare Australian marsupial which could be the love-child of a chipmunk and an anteater.Numbats were once populous across the bottom half of the continent, but Dryandra Woodland – in the south-western corner of Australia – is one of the few places they remain.As we slowly roll along bush tracks, researchers explain how this annual trip helps plot…
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