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Enhancing Biodiversity & Protecting Cultural Heritage at Torrens Island Conservation

Torrens Island Conservation, located 15km north-west of Adelaide, provides important habitat for a range of native fauna species, including 69 bird species of conservation significance, as well as cultural historical importance. The Kaurna People have lived in the Torrens Island area for thousands of years, but the woodland has degraded, and regeneration is not occurring naturally due to weed burdens and past failed revegetation attempts. FNPW have awarded Friends of Torrens Island a Community Conservation Grant to help restore the woodland.
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Mountain Pygmy-Possum

The Mountain Pygmy-Possum is critically endangered and thought to be extinct until they were re-discovered at Mt Hotham in the Victorian Alps during the 1960's. Since 2001, FNPW has been involved in the protection of the Mountain Pygmy-Possum including the establishment of a captive breeding program and climate change adaption centre.
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WA Bird Watering Stations

The bird waterers in Jirdarup Bushland are specifically designed to aid the survival of local native birdlife, particularly the endangered Carnaby's Black Cockatoos and vulnerable Forest Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos that roost and feed in the area. The structures are popular with all manner of bird species large and small and provide them with clean water all year round.
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Tasmanian Devil Melanie Wagner - Grants NSW - FNPW Photo Credit: Melanie Wagner

Devil Ark

Captive breeding programs are saving the Tasmanian Devils from the brink of extinction. As one of the largest living carnivorous marsupials in the world, the endemic Australian animal once roamed throughout mainland Australia...
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Phillip Island Green Parrot - Wildlife Donation Australia - FNPW

Green Parrot Breeding Project

Degraded habitat will be restored on Phillip Island due to the construction of an on-island nursery for endemic and threatened plants. A sense of ownership will grow as community members participate in running the nursery, propagating, and planting on Phillip Island. Before this, Phillip Island (6 km off Norfolk Island) was been stripped of plants and topsoil by introduced rabbits, pigs, and goats.
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