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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 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 crest-tailed mulgura hails from central Australia and is a small to medium-sized carnivorous marsupial that belongs to the Dasyuridae family. Other members of this family are quolls, dunnarts, numbats, Tasmanian devils, and the extinct thylacine. These marsupials face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of […]

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The Leadbeater’s possum, aka fairy possum, has been greatly restricted to small pockets of alpine ash, mountain ash, and snow gum forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. In 2025 an unknown population was shown to occur near Yarrangobilly Caves, Southern New South Wales. These possums face the threats […]

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The red-tailed phasogale, aka red-tailed wambenger, red-tailed mousesack, or kenngoor, is a diminutive, carnivorous marsupial that dwells among the inland areas of south-western to western Australia, and has been reintroduced in sanctuaries in western Australia as well as the Northern Territory. These little critters face the threats of habitat loss […]

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