potoroo

1 He said the island’s wildlife, which includes dingoes, potoroos, wallabies and an array of birds, lived across heathlands, coastal dunes and rainforests and would be suffering.

2 Significant numbers of the southern brown bandicoot and the long-footed potoroo, a kind of wallaby whose entire habitat has been ravaged by fire, have also most likely been lost.

3 And a great many of those species, like the koala, the southern brown bandicoot and the long-footed potoroo, have populations living in the regions now being obliterated by the fires.

4 Now, “The future of the largest known population is in serious doubt,” says Mark Graham, an ecologist with NWS’s Nature Conservation Council, who has worked for 20 years to protect the potoroo.

5 But conservationists say killing cats and fencing enclosures have already saved several species from extinction, including the Gilbert’s potoroo in Western Australia and the bridled nailtail wallaby in New South Wales.

6 The 37-square-mile islet has become a refuge for many native species in Tasmania, including eastern gray kangaroos, Bennett’s wallabies, and the long-nosed potoroo.

7 Their kangaroo cousins, including larger kangaroos and rat kangaroos such as potoroos and bettongs, continued to the present.

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