Help support one of Mother Nature’s truly remarkable and misunderstood animals in its fight to survive.
The Tasmanian devil of Australia faces an uncertain future, with deforestation, hunting, and a fatal Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD).
This disease is wiping out more than 90% of adults in high density areas and 40-50% in medium-low density areas. The disease is characterised by tumours mainly around the head and jaw of the animal. Once with the disease, the animal, 3-5 months later will painfully starve to its death.
This disease is not the only factor threatening the devil existence. Through hunting by some farmer’s and deforestation by large corporations, the devil is in a battle they can’t win on there own.
HABITAT
It is reported that over 20,000 hectares of native forest in Tasmania are clear felled and burned every year. The logging rate in Tasmania has quadrupled over the last 10 years. Logging companies profits have steadily increased.
HISTORY
Back in 1930s the Tasmanian government introduced a bounty scheme to remove devils.
For more then 100 years the animals were poisoned, trapped and shot on site. The animal was facing extinction till the species was protected by law in June of 1941. Many farmers to this day still kill the Tasmanian devil.
The time is NOW for all of us to lend our support for the devil and its habitat, before it’s lost in the wild forever...
I’m an active field researcher in West Pencil Pine, Tasmania. I have seen first hand the devastation caused both from the disease and through deforestation.
The experts view on the devils and climate change;
"There's a real risk of extinction within 20 years across the whole of Tasmania," said Hamish McCallum, a professor of wildlife research at the University of Tasmania.
"Unlocking the stored sunlight in wood for the production of renewable energy has taken off across the globe, with good reason. Basically this clown Bob Gordon, who is the governments" head of managing the state's forests, believes generating power from wood rather than coal was part of the solution to climate change......
This man is directly in charge on the Tasmanian devils habitat.
"Any state government that had the simplest of understandings of the critical role forests play in mitigating against climate change would rule the practice out immediately", Mr Booth, the leader of the green political party in Australia, said.
Join with me to give a voice for these animals. Be a part of the solution, together we will make a difference.
Money raised will directly go to field research / deforestation projects in Tasmania and the University Foundation at Tasmania.
Stay tuned for further developments.
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