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    Tasmanian Devils and quolls are needed for ecosystem balance

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/tasmanian-devils-and-quolls-are-needed-for-ecosystem-balance
    2 Nov 2022: University of Tasmania researcher Dr Matthew Fielding has discovered that quolls and Tasmanian Devils are needed for balance in the ecosystem. Dr Fielding spent several years studying the decline of quoll and Tasmanian Devil Populations on Flinders
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    Charitable trust makes enduring impact

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/charitable-trust-makes-enduring-impact
    4 Apr 2023: The year before her death, Irene Phelps reflected on her life: the girl from a former gold mining town in northern Tasmania, who had started out sweeping floors at a women’s apparel store, had travelled the globe, established a new life in
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    Spotlight on a devil researcher: Professor Greg Woods

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/spotlight-on-a-devil-researcher-professor-greg-woods
    23 Apr 2024: As we look back on 21 years of fundraising to protect the Tasmanian devil from Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD1 and DFTD2), it is a good time to highlight some of the critical work undertaken in the early days. Professor Greg Woods with PhD
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    Rockmelon industry to benefit from new recommendations

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1112-rockmelon-industry-to-benefit-from-new-recommendations
    10 Feb 2021: Researchers at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) have developed a set of new industry recommendations to improve Australian rockmelon food safety practices. The project team worked in consultation with industry to understand the causes of
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    Secret lives of devils revealed

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1005-secret-lives-of-devils-revealed
    11 May 2020: A ‘devil’s eye view’ into the secret lives of one of Tasmania’s most iconic creatures has been gathered by researchers using specially adapted video camera collars – and the results are incredible. The never seen before footage gained
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    Devils could be saviours for threatened birds in Bass Strait

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1062-devils-could-be-saviours-for-threatened-birds-in-bass-strait
    24 Sep 2020: While birds and native predators may seem like an odd coupling, a recent study by University of Tasmania ecologist Matthew Fielding suggests that reintroducing native predators to the islands could help rebalance the ecosystem and protect our more
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    From TB to COVID-19 and back again

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/from-tb-to-covid-19-and-back-again
    13 Dec 2023: Dr Clare Smith’s face is beaming. She’s standing in front of a small silver plaque fastened to a white brick wall. Underneath the name of her department, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, are two words that signal the start of a new chapter in
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    Study quantifies devils’ decline due to facial tumour disease

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1116-study-quantifies-devils-decline-due-to-facial-tumour-disease
    4 Mar 2021: New research from the University of Tasmania has estimated the toll a deadly facial cancer has taken on Tasmanian devil populations since the disease was discovered in 1996. In a paper published in Ecology Letters, researchers traced the spread of
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    Scientists get to the bottom of wombat cubed poo mystery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1109-scientists-get-to-the-bottom-of-wombat-cubed-poo-mystery
    28 Jan 2021: An international study into how wombats produce their distinctive cube-shaped poo has shed further light on the physics behind this biological puzzle. The research, published today in the journal Soft Matter, expands on the discovery that wombat poo
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    Protecting communities from bushfire with people power

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1085-protecting-communities-from-bushfire-with-people-power
    6 Nov 2020: As fiercer and faster bushfires become the new norm, a major cultural shift in the way we prepare and adapt to bushfire risk will be needed according to the latest research from the University of Tasmania. A new research project is drawing on the

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