The Tasmanian Devil Appeal
Raises much needed funds to support the Save the Tasmanian Devil program. It funds high-priority research and management actions. A new and deadly disease unlike any previous wildlife disease is threatening the Tasmanian devil. Within a few years the devil's numbers in the wild have declined so rapidly that it has been listed as vulnerable to extinction, under State and National legislation, and if trends continue it will become endangered. People the world over love the Tasmanian devil. It is an icon and a symbol of Tasmania. With the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in 1936, the Tasmanian devil is now the world’s largest meat-eating marsupial. The appeal monies will establish an insurance population safe from the disease, where healthy devils produce healthy pouch young capable of being released to the wild in the future; develop ways of protecting healthy devils from becoming infected, and investigate different anti-cancer drugs. All of these strategies depend on having sufficient funds.
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