Habitat Threats

Long-footed Potoroo [Potorous longipes]

Australia’s Long-footed Potoroo is endemic to Australia (found nowhere else in the wild) and is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List due to threats of habitat degradation and fox and wild dog predation. Its habitat destruction is being driven by policies and practices of State-sanctioned logging, bush arson, bushfire neglect by successive Labor and Liberal Victorian Governments.

This species has only three known small populations on the planet- around the Barry Mountains in NE Victoria, around Brown Mountain in East Gippsland and in the south-east forests of New South Wales.

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Habitat Threats

Many different harmful human activities pose threats to native habitats around the world. Cumulatively these threats, which translate into actual habitat destruction and death to wildlife, cause local and global extinctions to many wildlife species. It is a global ecological and moral priority for humanity to stop, prevent and reversing its anthropocentric destructionism.

The array of threats are numerous. The types of threats may be grouped in various ways. We have adopted the following logical groupings, while recognising that this list is not exhaustive.

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Types of Habitat Threats

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01. >Threats to Wild Tasmania *

* EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Tasmania is a special focus of The Habitat Advocate because of the high conservation value of forest ecology coupled with it being threatened by industrial logging, broadscale State-sanctioned arson, and mining. These threats continue to cause irreversible destruction to Tasmania’s ecology and are driving fauna extinctions. We have therefore established a new dedicated website: ^wildtasmania.org.

This website is under development, and our plan is to have all articles on The Habitat Advocate website specific to Tasmania, transferred to this new website. We shall make an announcement on the Home page of The Habitat Advocate website once this has been achieved.