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Leadbeater's possum

Index Leadbeater's possum

The Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is a critically endangered possum largely restricted to small pockets of alpine ash, mountain ash, and snow gum forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne. [1]

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Acacia

Acacia, commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Bass River (Victoria)

The Bass River, a perennial river of the Western Port catchment, is located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Baw Baw National Park

The Baw Baw National Park is a national park located on the boundaries between the Central Highlands and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia.

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Black Friday bushfires

The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were among the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world.

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Black Saturday bushfires

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.

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Cambarville, Victoria

Cambarville is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia.

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Carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period.

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Central Highlands (Victoria)

The Central Highlands is a region of Victoria.

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Clearcutting

Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

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Critically endangered

A critically endangered (CR) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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David Lindenmayer

David Lindenmayer,, is an Australian scientist and academic.

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Denis Napthine

Denis Vincent Napthine (born 6 March 1952) is a former Australian politician who was the 47th Premier of Victoria.

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Des Hackett

Des Hackett (1925 – 7 August 1998) was an Australian naturalist.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Eucalyptus delegatensis

Eucalyptus delegatensis, commonly known as alpine ash, woollybutt, gum-topped stringybark, and white-top, is a sub-alpine or temperate tree of southeastern Australia.

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Eucalyptus nitens

Eucalyptus nitens, commonly known as shining gum, is a Eucalypt species native to Victoria and eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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Eucalyptus pauciflora

Eucalyptus pauciflora, commonly known as snow gum or white sallee, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae.

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Eucalyptus regnans

Eucalyptus regnans, known variously as mountain ash, swamp gum, or stringy gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to Tasmania and the state of Victoria in southeastern Australia.

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Frederick McCoy

Sir Frederick McCoy (1817 – 16 May 1899), was an Irish palaeontologist, zoologist, and museum administrator, active in Australia.

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Gippsland

Gippsland is an economic rural region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of that state.

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Great Forest National Park

The Great Forest National Park is a proposed national park in Victoria, Australia.

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Greg Hunt

Gregory Andrew Hunt (born 18 November 1965) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal member of the House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria.

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Healesville Sanctuary

Healesville Sanctuary, formally known as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, is a zoo specialising in native Australian animals.

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Healesville, Victoria

Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Julian Burnside

Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author.

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Kinglake National Park

The Kinglake National Park is a national park in Central Victoria, Australia.

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Lake Eildon National Park

The Lake Eildon National Park is a national park in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, Australia.

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Lake Mountain (Victoria)

Lake Mountain is a mountain and cross-country ski resort that is located in Victoria, Australia; approximately from Melbourne.

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Lerp (biology)

In biology, a lerp is a structure of crystallized honeydew produced by larvae of psyllid bugs as a protective cover.

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List of Australian mammal emblems

This is a list of Australian mammal emblems.

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Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

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Longitudinal study

A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over short or long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data).

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Mahogany glider

The mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis) is an endangered gliding possum — Australian Government publication.pdf file native to a small region of coastal Queensland in Australia.

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Marysville, Victoria

Marysville is a small town, 34 kilometres north-east of Healesville and 41 kilometres south of Alexandra, in the Shire of Murrindindi in Victoria, Australia.

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Matriarchy

Matriarchy is a social system in which females (most notably in mammals) hold the primary power positions in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property at the specific exclusion of males - at least to a large degree.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Mount Baw Baw

Mount Baw Baw is a mountain within the Baw Baw National Park and Great Dividing Range, located in Victoria, Australia.

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Mountain ash

Mountain ash may refer to.

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Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.

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Narbethong, Victoria

Narbethong is a town in central Victoria, Australia.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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Nippon Paper Industries

is a Japanese paper manufacturing company.

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Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

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Petauridae

The family Petauridae includes 11 medium-sized possum species: four striped possums, six species of wrist-winged gliders in the genus Petaurus and Leadbeater's possum, which has only vestigial gliding membranes.

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Phalangeriformes

Phalangeriformes is a suborder of any of about 70 small- to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi (and introduced to New Zealand and China).

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Powelltown, Victoria

Powelltown is a town in Victoria, Australia, 70 km east of Melbourne's central business district.

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Primitive (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, a primitive (or ancestral) character, trait, or feature of a lineage or taxon is one that is inherited from the common ancestor of a clade (or clade group) and has undergone little change since.

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Relict (biology)

In biogeography and paleontology a relict is a population or taxon of organisms that was more widespread or more diverse in the past.

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Salvage logging

Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, or other natural disturbance in order to recover economic value that would otherwise be lost.

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Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.

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Squirrel glider

The squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) is a nocturnal gliding possum.

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State forest

A state forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign or federated state, or territory.

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Striped possum

The striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) is a member of the Petauridae family, one of the marsupial families.

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Sugar glider

The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Wilderness Society (Australia)

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation.

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Tony Burke

Anthony Stephen Burke (born 4 November 1969) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2004, representing the Division of Watson for the Labor Party.

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Toolangi State Forest

The Toolangi State Forest region in southern Australia extends from Mount Monda in the south up to Murrindindi in the north and includes the township of Toolangi.

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Toolangi, Victoria

Toolangi is a rural township in Victoria, Australia.

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Toronto Zoo

The Toronto Zoo is a zoo located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (or understorey, underbrush, undergrowth) comprises plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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VicForests

VicForests is a Government Backed Enterprise (GBE) operating in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Yarra Ranges National Park

Yarra Ranges National Park is located in the southeastern region of Australia, in the Victoria Central Highlands, 107 kilometres northeast of Melbourne.

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Yarra Ranges Shire

The Shire of Yarra Ranges is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.

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Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve

Established in 1965, the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve is located 45 km east of Melbourne in the Upper Yarra Valley, near the towns of Yellingbo, Launching Place, Yarra Junction, Hoddles Creek, Cockatoo, Emerald, Monbulk and Seville.

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Yellow-bellied glider

The yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadbeater's_possum

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