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Garrett to assess Tarkine road plan
Sydney :: Australia | 10 days ago
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This week, Mr Garrett put the kybosh on Queensland's Traveston dam, saving a turtle that breathes through its bottom and an ugly lungfish from the flooding of southern Queensland's Mary Valley. He's now being called on to save the Tasmanian devil in the...
Tags: Tarkine, Mr Garrett, tasmanian devils, Australia, Sydney, Devil facial tumour disease, Kakadu National Park, Devil, Geography of Tasmania, Tasmania, Environment
Social Networking Study Reveals Threat To Tasmanian Devils
A new study into the social networks of Tasmanian devils may help prevent the further spread of an extinction-threatening disease. The research, published in Ecology Letters, has produced an intricate social network of devil social relationships, revealing...
Tags: Social, Networking, Study, Reveals, Threat, Tasmanian Devils, extinct, allnews, technology
'Social networks' may help Tasmanian devils
Adelaide :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility It is usually the case that a small number of highly connected individuals, often called 'super-spreaders', are responsible for the majority of disease transmission," they explained. "If these individuals belong to identifiable sex or age classes, then...
Tags: tasmanian devils, South Australia, right whales, southern right
CNN: Contagious cancer threatens future of devils
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility widely known as trouble in Looney Tunes cartoons -- has been put on the country's endangered list, environmental officials announced Friday. "My decision to uplist the Tasmanian devil is based on advice from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee,...
Tags: Looney Tunes, tasmanian devils
Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia
Sydney :: Australia | 6 months ago
Credibility In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, Tex a Tasmanian Devil reacts in his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed as an endangered species Friday,...
Tags: tasmanian devils, minister peter, environment minister, Peter Garrett, Australia, greater protection, Tasmania, national environment, Antarctica
Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer
Canberra :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility The Tasmanian devil, a ferocious, snarling fox-sized marsupial, is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer...Scientists now want to build a double fence standing more than three feet tall to stop the cancer's relentless spread...
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BBC News: Hopes dashed for Tasmanian Devils
Sydney :: Australia | 11 months ago
Credibility Cedric was believed to have a natural immunity to the viral disease which he could pass on to future generations. But two tumours on his face, which have been removed, have cast doubt on the two-year project to save the creatures. Scientists warn that...
Tags: tasmanian devils
'Immune' Tassie devil has cancer
Hobart :: Australia | 11 months ago
Credibility Cedric had for two years shown a strong antibody response to the devastating disease that experts warn could cause the extinction of the marsupial in the wild by 2020.
Tags: Cedric, tasmanian devils, tassie devils
AdelaideNow, Australia: SA help in Tasmanian devil cancer fight
Adelaide :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility November 02, 2008 10:30pm THE Tasmanian devil could be extinct within the next 20 years unless a vaccine to suppress infectious facial cancer is found, says an Adelaide zoologist. The Tasmanian Government, in consultation with South Australian Zoos...
Tags: extinct, tasmanian devils
Auto racing schedule: Aug. 15-20
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 1 year ago
Credibility Michigan International Speedway (D-shaped oval, 2 miles, 18 degrees banking in turns)...Sprint Cup, six in Nationwide and two in trucks � and three came on road courses. He won the Nationwide race in Mexico in April and the Cup race at Sonoma in June.
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