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We can help bring back native wildlife to the suburbs and encourage native birds, lizards, frogs and insects into our own backyards by simply providing a wildlife friendly garden. Urban development has destroyed much of the bush regions that our native wildlife depends upon for food and shelter.The suburban backyard is typically manicured lawns with very few trees and the …
For more than 200 million years frogs have survived. They were around well before the dinosaur, and have managed to endure dramatic climatic shifts – from ice ages to global warming. But today the chorus often heard by many as a child is silent. Those spring nights filled with the sounds of many a hopeful soul, croaking his heart out …
Sarcoptic mange is a disease primarily of wombats caused by a small eight-legged mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. It can also cause mange in koalas, ringtail possums, dogs and foxes. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the mite can be transmitted from dogs and foxes to wombats and vice versa. Wombats afflicted with mange are itchy, develop fur loss, and thickened crusty skin. This …
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by a small parasite that is shed in cat faeces. Cats are the definitive host for the parasite, but marsupials are extremely sensitive to infection with the organism. Marsupials usually contract the disease through exposure to cat faeces, feed that has been contaminated by cat faeces, or by eating the flesh of another animal that …
The capture and handling of all wildlife must be performed as quickly and efficiently as possible, to avoid potential injury or captive myopathy #. All animals should be securely confined when transporting – taping cardboard boxes down, tying the end of pillowcases as well as fastening boxes within the car and leaving windows open for extra ventilation. It is not …
in the Beginning ….. Origins Australia’s unique mammal fauna is to some extent explicable with the Australian continent itself. It was once part of Gondwanaland, a southern super-continent that also included those land masses we now recognise as South America, Africa, India, Madagascar and New Zealand. Through continental drift they separated. The native mammals of Australia are derived from two sources; …
As zoos progress from that of menageries to conservation centres, the rationale for keeping animals in captivity has been defined into two categories: Conservation & Research / Education & Recreation Healesville Sanctuary is custodian to one of the remnant vegetation communities left in the Yarra Valley. Surrounded by farms and houses, it has suffered by invasion of weeds and pests. In 1989 …
Under no circumstances is it permissible to take native fauna from the wild for the sole purpose of ‘having a pet’. Australia has one of the highest extinction rates of native mammals in the world – nearly 25% of all known species are extinct, endangered or vulnerable. Government funding is limited, public institutions often have their hands unwillingly tied behind their …
