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The red-legged pademelon, a member of the kangaroo family and who inhabits the rainforests, hails from the northeastern coast of Australia and in New Guinea. The clearing of lowland rainforest and dense understories for agriculture, residential development, and dairy farming has drastically reduced and disjointed their natural range. High-intensity logging […]

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The parma wallaby hails from northeastern New South Wales, Australia, near the border with Queensland. They’ve also been introduced to Kawau Island in New Zealand. The land clearing and habitat loss has been reduced since European colonization by land clearing for agriculture, urban development and logging. Some land clearing continues, […]

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The kultarr, aka jerboa-marsupial or marsupial jerboa, is a diminutive insectivorous marsupial that hails from the arid interior of Australia. They face the ongoing threat of predation by feral cats and red foxes. Overgrazing by cattle and sheep degrades and compacts their preferred open desert and woodland habitats. Intense bushfires […]

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The common brushtail possum is the 2nd largest of the Australasian possums. They are native to Australia and invasive in New Zealand because they are known for rapidly destroying native forests via heavy browsing, they prey on native bird eggs and chicks, and they also spread bovine tuberculosis to farm […]

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The Antechinus, aka broad-footed marsupial mouse, pouched mouse, or Antechinus shrew looks like a mouse but with the bristly fur and long face of a shrew. These small marsupials hail from Australia. They face the threat of climate change that causes warming temperatures which forces high-altitude antechinuses into shrinking mountaintop […]

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The mountain pygmy possum, aka burramys, is the only extant species in the genus Burramys. They hail from southern Australia. These diminutive critters face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the skiing industry, and fires. Habitat division due to roads and railroads, as well as […]

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The Tous is a newly rediscovered species of gliding marsupial that was recently found by a plantation worker in the rainforests of Indonesian Papua. These marsupials were once thought to be extinct for about 6,000 years. They are threatened by habitat loss and destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, […]

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The monjon, aka Burbidge’s rock-wallaby or Burbidge’s rock-weasel, is the smallest species of rock-wallaby. They hail from northwestern Australia. These little critters face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of fires, fire management, mining, and quarrying (for bauxite); and invasive species, in the form of feral […]

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The sandhill dunnart is a species of carnivorous marsupial from 4 scattered semi-arid regions of Australia: Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central and eastern Eyre Peninsula in southern Australia, the southwestern & western edges of the Great Victoria Desert in western Australia, and at Yellabinna in southern Australia. These […]

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The nabarlek is a timid marsupial found in Northern Australia. They prefer scrubby vegetation over boulder piles, granitic outcrops, sandstone formations, breakaways of laterite, and rocky slopes. These macropods (marsupials) face the ongoing threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of fires & fire suppression; and invasive species, […]

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