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Climate change the prime suspect in native rodent's 'preventable'extinction

Melomys rubicola

Melomys rubicola Source: Department of Environment and Energy

Conservationists say Australia needs to do more to protect its native animals from becoming extinct following the disappearance of a rodent that lived on a tiny island in the Torres Strait.



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