From beavers to tigers: How wildlife secretly tackles climate change Wild animals are secretly playing a “crucial role” in mitigating human-made climate change through their natural behaviour.

Sounds like we need to increase the #elephant, #beaver, #echidna, #bettong and #dugong populations
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These little bettongs were wiped out in South Australia a century ago. Now they’re thriving alongside foxes and feral cats Predatory foxes and cats prowl South Australia’s national parks. But the successful reintroduction of an endangered bettong proves coexistence is possible.

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New Marsupial Species Discovered in Australia Named Bettongia haoucharae, the newly-discovered species of woylie is already likely extinct, says a team of researchers from Curtin University, the We...

#Biology #Australia #Bettong #Bettongia #Bettongia #haoucharae […]

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New Marsupial Species Discovered in Australia Named Bettongia haoucharae, the newly-discovered species of woylie is already likely extinct, says a team of researchers from Curtin University, the We...

#Biology #Australia #Bettong #Bettongia #Bettongia #haoucharae […]

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Once dismissed as 'low mammals', marsupials are Australian survivors Many marsupials have become Aussie icons, such as kangaroos, koalas and wombats, yet we still need to pay more attention to this amazing group of animals, experts argue.

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"We've got kids at school that can all tell you what a lion, a tiger, and … dinosaurs are, but they cannot tell you what a #bettong is. Yet this animal could be responsible for the entire communication and health of the #forest that allows us to #breathe."

A light dusting of snow last night was a new and interesting experience for our Brush-tailed Bettongs, also called Woylies. A mini kangaroo once common right across southern Australia but now locally extinct.
#australian #endangered #wildlife #bettong

#endangered #bettong #australia

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It looks like a miniature kangaroo and it’s bouncing back from the brink of extinction | CNN The brush-tailed bettong once inhabited most of Australia, but these days it lives in a tiny fraction of its former range. Now, the Marna Banggara initiative is bringing it back ...

#Australia: Brush-tailed #bettong is bouncing back from the brink of #extinction, helping to restore some of the Yorke Peninsula’s historic ecological diversity.

https://www.rfr.bz/bac97a5
#rewilding

Parasites at Risk – Insights from an Endangered Marsupial www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/full... #parasitology @AS_Para #Woylie #Bettong ping @fudgeh0g