Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Rescue the Taz

Australia mulls Tasmanian devils rescue (AP)

Wildlife biologist Clare Hawkins examines a Tasmanian Devil in the field in Tasmania as part of efforts underway to manage the impact of the facial tumour disease affecting the species in this udated handout photograph from the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and Water. The Tasmanian Devil, a rare carnivorous marsupial found only on Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, faces extinction in 10 to 20 years without a cure for the facial tumour disease now decimating the population. (Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and Water/Ho/Reuters)AP - Scientists are planning to move Tasmanian devils — the Australian marsupial made famous as a snarling, whirlwind character in Warner Bros. cartoons — to an island sanctuary to avert the animals' threatened extinction from a mysterious cancer.


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