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Foxes: Weapons of Mass Deception
Dr David Obendorf There is science and there is spin. There is now a mounting dossier of serious corruptions and misjudgements of...
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Environment
The troubling approach to foxes
Dr David Obendorf The approach taken to foxes in Tasmania has been troubling for many years now. Regrettably there are too many...
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Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer
David Quammen Harper’s magazine The biological mystery of how the Tasmanian devil’s rogue tumor manages to establish itself in one animal after...
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Environment
Breach of law may halt roo cull
Matthew Denholm Australian The evidence of both scientists may be used by animal welfare advocates to obtain a court injunction to halt...
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Environment
Fox Reward extended
David Obendorf For all interested the Fox Reward will be extended again until 31 December 2008; with the same conditions applying. It...
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Environment
Feral cats: Where have all the quail gone?
Dr David Obendorf Feral cat scat analysis isn’t everyone’s forte but I can tell readers that from an examination of nearly 400...
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Environment
What do the latest DNA-positive fox scats tell us?
David Obendorf Since 2001 there has been no success in producing any images of foxes taken in Tasmania (even from the sensational...
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Environment
The toxic detail about PCBs
David Obendorf Some of the dioxin-like PCB congeners are now banned but they are known to be persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that...
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1.5KEnvironmentDevil of a cocktail
Dr David Obendorf Informed by science or spin? Now the analysis has been posted on the DPIW website, www.dpiw.tas.gov.au . Detectible residues...
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Environment
Sensitive devils a pollutant risk
Matthew Denholm Australian TWO new scientific reports suggest the Tasmanian devil, whose survival is threatened by a facial cancer, may be more...
