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From the monthly archives:
May 2008
The Tasmanian devil has been listed as an endangered species by the Tasmanian Government.
A deadly and disfiguring facial cancer, which often kills within months, has cut the island state’s wild devil population by as much as 60 per cent.
The reclassification from vulnerable to endangered status highlights the severe nature of the threat to the marsupial.
Primary Industries Minister David Llewellyn said the upgrading to endangered status reflected the plunge in the devil population resulting from the facial tumour disease. “The order has now been gazetted, and the new status becomes official today,” Mr Llewellyn said.
Wildlife and disease experts are working with state and commonwealth governments to combat the disease.
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Kathryn Lomer — [ABC]
Hobart poet, Kathryn Lomer, was today awarded the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry.
Kathryn’s second collection of poetry, Two Kinds of Silence, was recognised as part of the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.
The judges praised her poetry for its consistency, bravery and stylistic dexterity.
“I had no expectation of winning,” she said. “I mean, really, I was short listed with David Malouf and a number of other fantastic poets and so I already felt in good company in that way and then on the awards night well it was just fantastic to be there with all those other writers,
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How will climate change impact Tasmania?
Dr Peter McIntosh from the CSIRO department for marine and atmospheric research projects a few possible scenarios from the computer model he ran for Hydro Tasmania.
Slideshow of Tasmanian photographs by Tasmanian Arc 2008
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