AR-News: (AU) Burn may have killed rare quolls

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Danny Buttler
March 25, 2004

A CONTROLLED burn may have killed a breeding pair of one of Victoria's most 
critically endangered species.

Outraged residents of Rawson, north of Moe, claim the Department of 
Sustainability and Environment knew about the rare spot-tailed quolls, but went ahead 
with the fuel reduction. 
Last Friday's burn was in an area used by a wildlife refuge to reintroduce 
hundreds of injured native animals. 
Wallabies, wombats, sugar gliders and koalas were among the other species 
released into the area. 
Locals claimed they were told the fire, which was still smoking yesterday, 
would reach just 1m off the ground, but instead scorched the trunks of mature 
trees. 




full story:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9067025%255E26462,00.html 
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