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Environment
Devil disease: answer this
TWO years after the Devil Facial Tumour Disease, there is still no scientific peer-reviewed publication even on the basic description of pathology...
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Environment
Devil disease: The chemical bombshell
DID other Tasmanian Times readers get a chance to read Matthew Denholm’s article on Tasmanian devils in The Weekend Australian Magazine last...
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Environment
Devil Disease: Too little, too late?
IN THE early 1990s DPIWE received anecdotal reports of declines in devils from NE corner of Tasmania (one of the highest density...
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Environment
Foxes: The questions remain
IT WAS the government itself that declared its response to foxes in Tasmania would be based on ‘hard physical evidence’. Using the...
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Environment
What to believe?
TASMANIA’S fox experts, Tim Bloomfield, Nick Mooney and Chris Emms recently stated their opinions on the public scepticism about foxes in Tasmania*....
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Environment
Shooting the messenger
Shooting messengers has become a culturally-acceptable sport within the Department of Primary Industry, Water & Environment. What’s more it’s Open Season all...
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Environment
Tasmania’s WMDs
With around 18% of last year’s baits taken or over 2800 baits (The Mercury, 22 April), (Victims of fox 1080 target) the...
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Health
The Breakdown
What do you do when something happens that you know to be wrong, unethical or inappropriate? A person behaves unethically; actions are...
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Environment
Why the devils are dying?
The primary cause of the malignant cancer, colloquially called Devil Facial Tumour Disease, still remains a mystery. Readers would be aware of...
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Environment
Chemical fears, the devil disease
A surge in cancer and neurological cases in north-eastern Tasmania since 2002 is consistent with chronic low-level chemical exposure, says a report...
