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🎉 Exciting news! The gorgeous Greater Glider has been crowned Marsupial of the Year 2024! 🎉🌿 To celebrate, check out our beautiful storybook "The Perfect Hollow," which follows a Greater Glider’s journey to find a new home. It’s the perfect way for kids to learn about these amazing creatures and why they need our help! 📖🌳 These fluffy, big-eared gliders are not just cute, they're also an important part of Australia's forest ecosystems. Sadly, their numbers have dropped by up to 80% in…

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We hear from Sue McKinnon & Peter Roberts, both of the Kinglake Friends of the Forest community group which is going head-to-head with the government-owned logging company VicForests, to save the little-known greater glider from extinction.Sue & Peter explain how, despite the greater glider's threatened status, VicForests continues to clearfell coupes throughout the native forests of Central Highlands and Gippsland where greater gliders are known to inhabit.

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Australian Museum on Instagram: "It’s #NationalThreatenedSpecies day 🦘 A day to raise awareness of Australia’s native plant and animal species that need our help. Species such as the greater glider (pictured), whose population has declined 80% in just 20 years, are under threat. Tree clearing, forest destruction, habitat fragmentation, bushfires and climate change continue to place greater glider populations at risk. Scientists at the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) are dedic

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