Tasmanian devils now endangered
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Australia has raised the protection level for the Tasmanian devil from vulnerable to endangered, the BBC has reported. The devil population, which is found on the island state of Tasmania, has been decimated by a facial tumour disease, the report said, with the number of wild devils falling by up to 70% since the mid-1990s.
The new conservation status will give the animals greater protection under national environment laws.
The Tasmanian devil is the world’s largest marsupial carnivore, but its numbers may be as low as 20,000.
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