EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...
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Columbus Zoo cares for critically endangered brush-tailed bettong with new joey
POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) — The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has been adding new members, many of whom have been featured on NBC4 over the past few weeks. From an echidna puggle to a tufted deer fawn, the ...
Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% between 1999 and 2010 Getty A small marsupial species has been saved from ...
Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback NSW.
Australia has plenty of cute animals that get attention. Koalas, kangaroos and quokkas are talked about all the time, but there's a new creature that deserves the limelight. That would be the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation organization Aussie Ark announced the newest member of its family on January 21 – an orphaned Rufous Bettong joey ...
Scientists surveying the endangered northern bettong have discovered one particular sub-population of the species is in significant trouble and needs urgent help. James Cook University Ph.D. candidate ...
From sifting through topsoil for native truffles to cracking open hard shells of seeds and nuts to munch on the tasty kernels, Australia bettongs and potoroos are described as "ecosystem engineers" in ...
Australia’s tiny jumpers, known as bettongs, are in trouble; once exterminated as agricultural pests they are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators such as foxes and cats. Scientists ...
Australian scientists studying the reliability of species distribution models for revealing the response of animals to climate change have focused their research on the endangered marsupial, the ...
A baby bettong is battling for life after it was thrown from its mother’s pouch during Friday’s storms. Flung from her mother’s pouch during Friday’s wild storm, this female bettong is battling for ...
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