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	<title>Help save Leadbeater&#039;s Possum</title>
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		<title>Australia: Heatwave triggers bushfire alert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Jan 02, 2012 3:41PM UTC http://asiancorrespondent.com/73041/australia-another-heatwave-triggers-bushfire-alert/ Australia is on bushfire alert as a heatwave spreads across the southern states of Victoria and South Australia, with  temperatures soaring to over 40 degrees Celsius. One of the images on Black Saturday&#8217;s bushfire in Victoria (Photo: News Ltd) Melbourne and Adelaide started the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native woodchipping sector in rapid decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warrick Jordan December 29, 2011 http://www.theage.com.au/business/native-woodchipping-sector-in-rapid-decline-20111228-1pcu0.html The aftermath of logging the world&#8217;s tallest hardwood trees for woodchips in the Styx Valley, Tasmania. Photo: Dean Sewell THE Australian native forest logging industry is in dire straits. The international crash in demand for native forest woodchips has the industry desperately scrambling for replacement markets. While the native-forest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/native-woodchipping-sector-in-rapid-decline/</link>
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		<title>State park say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mara Pattison-Sowden. 10th January 2012 02:00:03 AM. http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/mail/mountain-views/326/story/146718.html The Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater&#8217;s Bob Anderson, Monbulk Landcare Group&#8217;s Bill Incoll, Macclesfield Landcare&#8217;s Irene Pearney, Johns Hill Landcare Group and Friend of Meander Jeff Latter, and honeyeater friend David Howell with Gembrook MP Brad Battin (second from right). COMMUNITY groups and the public are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/state-park-say/</link>
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		<title>Zoos a breed apart for species on the brink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ollie Milman January 8, 2012 http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/zoos-a-breed-apart-for-species-on-the-brink-20120107-1ppew.html Endangered: Leadbeater&#8217;s possum. Photo: Dan Harley MELBOURNE&#8217;S zoos will become urban arks, breeding sanctuaries for 20 of the most at-risk species in the state, as scientists struggle to save them from extinction. Flagging a strategic shift to become a &#8221;zoo-based conservation organisation&#8221;, Zoos Victoria &#8211; which includes Melbourne Zoo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/zoos-a-breed-apart-for-species-on-the-brink/</link>
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		<title>Bandicoots get haven to breed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[18 Jan, 2012 01:00 AM http://www.wyndhamweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/bandicoots-get-haven-to-breed/2424139.aspx WERRIBEE Open Range Zoo is stepping up the fight to save the eastern-barred bandicoot from extinction. In a move to boost its conservation arm, Zoos Victoria, which includes Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee zoo, has released a priority list of species it says are in urgent need of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/bandicoots-get-haven-to-breed/</link>
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		<title>Grants to help threatened species</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 Nov 11 @ 06:55am by Gilbert Gardiner http://berwick-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/grants-to-help-threatened-species/ A LEADING conservation authority has stepped up its campaign to protect endangered species across Casey and Cardinia. Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority has started distributing $65,000 in grants to help landowners build fences to control pest plants and animals and revegetate private properties. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/grants-to-help-threatened-species/</link>
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		<title>Grants to help protect species across Casey and Cardinia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[25 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Gilbert Gardiner http://cranbourne-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/grants-to-help-protect-species-across-casey-and-cardinia/ A LEADING conservation authority has stepped up its campaign to protect endangered flora and fauna species across Casey and Cardinia. Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority is distributing $65,000 in grants to help landowners build fences to control pest plants and animals, and revegetate private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/grants-to-help-protect-species-across-casey-and-cardinia/</link>
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		<title>Kallista teen fights for possums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[18 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Alex Munro http://free-press-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/kallista-teen-fights-for-possums/ A KALLISTA teenager is leading a campaign to save the endangered Leadbeater’s possum. Elly Robertson, 14, is one of three teenagers from the eastern suburbs that make up the Help the Endangered Leadbeater’s Possum group. “We try to help in every respect we can, whether it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/kallista-teen-fights-for-possums/</link>
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		<title>Toolangi forest logging halted until 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[19 Sep 11 @ 04:06pm by Emily Webb http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/toolangi-forest-logging-halted-until-2012/ A HALT on logging in a Toolangi forest has been extended until February, 2012. The Supreme Court today extended the injunction to stop logging in Sylvia Creek forest near Toolangi after VicForests agreed to the moratorium. Healesville-based conservation group My Environment Inc has challenged the legality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/toolangi-forest-logging-halted-until-2012/</link>
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		<title>Court extends Sylvia Creek logging injunction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated September 19, 2011 12:41:55 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/court-extends-sylvia-creek-logging-injunction/2905978 The Victorian Supreme Court has extended a ban on logging at a contentious site north-east of Melbourne until next year. Environmentalists took the government&#8217;s forestry arm, VicForests, to court last month over its timber operations at Sylvia Creek, near Toolangi. They argue the site is home to the threatened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leadbeaters.org.au/court-extends-sylvia-creek-logging-injunction/</link>
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