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We modelled the future of Leadbeater’s possum habitat and found bushfires, not logging, pose the greatest threat

  • Written by Craig Nitschke, Associate Professor - Forest and Landscape Dynamics, University of Melbourne
imageRohan Clarke, Author provided

The Federal Court recently ruled that a timber harvesting company couldn’t log potential habitat of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum.

This decision led to the immediate protection of more Leadbeater’s possum habitat and will lead to further habitat set aside over the next ten years as nati...

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