A government plan to turn Tasmania’s Maria Island national park into a last refuge for the disease-plagued Tasmanian devil has sparked strong opposition from wildlife advocates.
Attempts to safeguard the marsupial against extinction in the wild are focusing on the island after rejection of a plan to fence healthy devils into Tasmania’s north-west corner.
”We decided a single breach by a diseased devil would have negated that whole project,” said Chris Boland, science manager for the federal-state Save the Tasmanian Devil Program, ”so Maria becomes of critical importance.”
But conservation groups are worried that releasing devils on Maria Island could be too costly for birds and other animals on the island.
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