Numbats have stolen our hearts! These adorable marsupials sleep in hollow fallen logs or burrows and eat 20,000 termites a day with their long sticky tongues. They don’t drink water – termites keep them hydrated.
Numbat families used to live from Victoria to WA, but because of habitat destruction, foxes and cats, now they cling to existence in just two places in the wild.
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Strong environmental laws are absolutely necessary and as my MP it’s up to you to do something. Plastics, pollution, global warming…all are harming our environment and the creatures that live in it. Please use your position to enact laws that will protect animals that are on the edge of extinction.
Iconic Australian marsupial, Numbat, are now classified as endangered due to habitat destruction, foxes and cats from Victoria to WA, they now cling to existence in just two places in the wild.
We need strong national environment laws to protect the places and wildlife we love – please raise this with your party leader.
Australia has the worst record for mammalian extinction in the modern era – thirty species lost since 1788. This madness must stop.
Australia is unlike anywhere else in the world, largely due to the native species that inhabit this country. It is time they got prioritised, we won’t get this chance again.
Too many Australian native creatures have become extinct in the last hundred years. This must STOP. Commercial SO CALLED development by land clearing and mining must not take precedence over protection of native creatures.
I have never seen one, probably never will now
Humans are supposed to be smart. Instead of being responsible for making plants, animals & entire ecosystems extinct, we should be PROTECTING them instead. It’s time to step up for the future of the planet.
It is disturbing to see the rate at which our natural fauna and flora is being decimated here in Australia. We needs strong national environmental laws to protect our beautiful wildlife and the habitats they rely on for survival.
What kind of a future do you want for your children and grandchildren?
Numbat families used to live from Victoria to WA, but because of habitat destruction, foxes and cats, now they cling to existence in just two places in the wild.
We need strong national environment laws to protect the places and wildlife we love – PLEASE raise this with their party leader.
Australia can’t afford to lose any more of our unique furry friends! Not to mention the added impact tree clearing has on climate change. Please help
We need your help to keep Numbats habitat protected and safe from logging. Please show you care about Australia’s diverse wildlife by keeping our native animals alive for future generations to enjoy.
Greg, Are you aware that this little creature once roamed across our lands? But he’s virtually gone. We need better laws to protect our environment. We need better understanding from our politicians on the effects of Climate Change and land clearing. Despite the rhetoric coming from the PM, I have just this year installed solar panels and a heat pump and now my gas bill has been shredded, and our power bill has been in credit for 3 months. Will you at last start supporting our call to protect our environment and reduce our cost of living with sensible policies? Australia is a dismal, inept member of the advanced countries of the world. All we need is political courage, vision and will. Will you help Josh Frydenberg get over his incapacity to move for fear of the Monash Forum with Kelly and Abbott? We need change now.
Australia can’t afford to lose any more of our unique furry friends!
Please help to protect our endangered native animals.
Diversity matters. Loss of hbitat and invasive species and increased risk of fire with climate change means we could lose this creature for ever.
After the recent fire in the Stirling Range National Park, which serves as release area for numbats, it has again been highlighted how vulnerable this – as well as many other species – is. 11 years ago, it happened to the Noisy Scrubbird, a bird which until the 60es was thought to be extinct, but then found in small numbers here in our area. A breeding programme led to the release into Porongurup National Park, which in 2007 suffered great losses due to a fire.
So much more needs to be done. Our entire approach and attitude is wrong. Our focus is of a different world, ours, the one about socioeconomic standards. In that, we forget the rest of the world, the one that is real to all other living beings. We are really not very good at being on this planet.
Regards
Laura West
Yet another valuable termite eating species quite posdibly
Numbat families used to live from Victoria to WA, but because of habitat destruction, foxes and cats, now they cling to existence in just two places in the wild. Australians need strong national environment laws to protect the places and wildlife we love.