Heartwarming article, but this bit is pretty sobering.

Dr Kita Ashman, a WWF conservation scientist, said:

We returned to a site in Tallaganda State Forest after logging and there was one tree left in this entire area of forest. And I watched a glider come out and not have anywhere to go. To see an endangered species come out of a tree hollow and just stare into the distance because there's nothing left, that's devastating, that's gut wrenching.

But I am really hopeful that collaborations like this, and the amazing work that so many people are doing, can turn the tide for greater gliders.

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[–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago

I think the word critter has taken a level of cuteness into it's meaning. I see it used less for cockroaches, for example, than I do for small bush animals, like I used it for Greater Gliders.

Of course i suppose the impersonal nature of the word is why we don't use it much for animals we have acertain closeness to, such as humans, or dogs and cats.

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