'Return performance'. Illustration by: Andrew Dyson Read today's letters to the editor here.
My home used to be surrounded by large trees that hosted king parrots, yellow-tailed black cockatoos, lorikeets, magpies, butcher birds etc. A pair of tawny frogmouths slept every summer day on the same branch, hidden in the thick foliage of the camphor laurel. It was such a delight. I also had a possum, which ran noisily over the roof at night.
The possums scratch and tear at my weatherboard house every night until they finally break in, only to die later in the ceiling. It is an expensive nightmare. Repellents do not work and relocating the possums is a waste of time as more just take their place. Too much Australian wildlife has become extinct since colonisation and we need to stop being the “extinction continent capital”.It is a relief, at last, that the now endangered southern greater glider will receive some protection. Let us hope it is not too late. As Australian National University ecologist David Lindenmayer says: “It used to be one of the most common species that you would see if you went surveying or spotlighting 30 years ago.
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