Tasmanian Devils Devastated By Disease

Experts gathered in the Tasmanian city of Launcestonin in early October to develop a strategy for finding the causes of 'devil facial tumor disease' (DFTD) and for battling the disease which has killed half of the world-wide Tasmanian devil population.
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xxx you should get a graph of the tasmanian devils population
 9/8/2007
darian I loved it 3/21/2007
jennifer cole i think that this website is magnifisant 8/25/2005
p "What happens every year to a lot of Tasmanian Wildlife, outside National Parks"
"In plantation regions, the Tasmanian forestry planning system sets aside Wildlife Habitat Corridors, these are some 80 to 100 metres wide strips in the landscape still stocked as native forest. However, with every rotation of clearfell, there comes also death in various forms ... At this time of year, in the planting season, plantation workers on 4 wheel motorbikes provide directly along the edge of the clearfelled coupe, thus directly on the side of these wildlife habitat strips spaced every 10 metres or so, little mounts of fresh, dices and cinnamon dipped carrots as free feeding. This is for the first 5 to 10 days or so, but then the blue carrots come as 1080 poison. Wallabies, Possums, Wombats and other vegetable eaters get lured practically still sitting on the edge of the habitat corridor. With the death come carnivorous meat eaters, feeding on the carcasses are Crows and Ravens, Quolls and Devils, ... The use of poison is not target specific, but very open to disaster. Also who supervises the poisoned coupe after the workers have left the site?
I fear, that it's only a matter of time until ... !
A very, very blunt tool !
Time for real change."
Frank Strie - Forester, 15 May 2004
 1/26/2005
any what is the Tasmanian Devils population as of 2004 12/13/2004
harmeet whar is the body?????????? 11/18/2004
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