On 7 September 1936, just two months after the species was granted protected status, the last known Tasmanian tiger died from exposure at Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo. National Threatened Species Day is now commemorated on that day each year to spotlight the animals, plants and ecosystems under threat, and reflect on our duty to protect them.
Over the past 200 years of European colonisation, more than 100 animal and plant species have been declared extinct in Australia. Currently, more than 1,700 species and ecological communities are known to be threatened and at risk of extinction.
The swift parrot. The platypus. The wedge tailed eagle. The Tasmanian devil. What can be done so that these species do not suffer the same neglect and fate as the fabled thylacine?
The Tasmanian Land Conservancy is a not-for-profit, apolitical, science and community-based organisation that raises funds from the public to protect irreplaceable sites and rare ecosystems by buying and managing private land in Tasmania. Fullers Bookshop is proud to partner with the TLC on such an important day in the conservation calendar.
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