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Mountain Pygmy-possum

Saving the Mountain Pygmy-possum

Help Save the World’s Only Exclusively Alpine Marsupial Mountain Pygmy-possums only occur above the winter snowline in NSW and Victoria. That snowline is rapidly receding threatening the critically endangered Mountain Pygmy-possum. We need your help to ensure the survival of the possum by supporting a captive breeding program. We must act now to guarantee this gorgeous animal survives for future generations to see.

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Native Animals: What you can do to look after them

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Each month, the Foundation releases 'B-mail', an email newsletter about animals and plants you can see in your backyard or local area.

B-mail gives simple tips to let you know what you can do to make your backyard safe and inviting for all kinds of native plants and animals, so that you can enjoy their unique behaviours and amazing antics.

Click to read past B-mails. Subscribe to B-mail by filling in your details here, it's completely free. 

2011

January B-mail 2011 - Flying Friends Flock to your Backyard.
Featuring Cockatiels, Barn Owls, Leaf Hoppers, Forty-spotted Pardalote, and Corellas.

February B-mail 2011 - Summertime Fun.
Featuring Blue-tongued Lizards, Stick Insects, Grasshoppers, Tasmanian Pademelon, and Silver Gulls (Seagulls!).

March B-mail 2011 - Phenomenal Frogs Flood into Town.
Featuring Water-holding Frogs, Spotted Grass Frogs, Desert Tree Frogs, Green & Gold Frogs, Green Tree Frogs, and Corroboree Frogs.

April B-mail 2011 - Beautiful Blue Birds.
Featuring Blue-faced Honeyeaters, Blue-winged Kookaburras, Blue Bottle 'Ants', Satin Bowerbirds, and Eastern Bristlebirds.

May B-mail 2011 - Identifying Black & White Birds.
Featuring Pied Currawongs, Pied Butcherbirds, Peewees, Willie Wagtails, Black Currawongs, and Australian Magpies.

June B-mail 2011 - Great Migrations & New Beginnings.
Featuring Red Wattlebirds, Black Swans, Spotted-tailed Quolls, Masked Lapwings, Swift Parrots, and Humpback Whales.

2010

January B-mail 2010 - Night Buddies Beat the Heat.
Featuring Geckos, Sugar Gliders, Nakeen Night Herons, Bats, and Cicadas.

February B-mail 2010 - The Young and the Restless.
Featuring urban Raptors, Rainbow Lorikeets, Scaly Lorikeets, native Australian mice, Magpies, Bandicoots, and Crickets.

March B-mail 2010 - Time to Head North.
Featuring Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes, Budgies aka Budgerigars, Scarlet Honeyeaters, Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoos, and Channel-billed Cuckoos.

April B-mail 2010 - Buddies Spiky, Soft and Secret.
Featuring Echidnas, Cycads, Paperbarks, Welcome Swallows, and Microbats.

May B-mail 2010 - Now it's Getting Cool, We're Staying Warm!
Featuring Wombats, Mixed flocks of birds, Sundews, and Daddy-long-legs.

June B-mail 2010 - Living on Burrowed Time.
Featuring Burrowing Frogs, Striated Pardalotes, Playtypus, Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard, and Trapdoor Spiders.

July B-mail 2010 - Branches Bare All.
Featuring Red Cedars, Illawarra Flame Trees, Stag Beetles, and White Cedars.

August B-mail 2010 - Feathered Friends Brave the Cold.
Featuring Spangled Drongos, Brown Honeyeaters, Figbirds, Superb Fairy Wrens, Crows, and Ravens.

September B-mail 2010 - Welcome Spring on Wattle Day!
Featuring Wattles, Wattle Defending Ants, Red Wattlebirds, Wattle munching Moths, and Gall Wasps.

October B-mail 2010 - Getting Clucky in Your Backyard.
Featuring Purple Swamphens, Ornate Burrowing Frogs, Magpie-larks, Tasmanian Native hens, and Millipedes.

November B-mail 2010 - Buddies on the Hop.
Featuring Lacewings, Woodswallows, Kingfishers, Bettongs and Eastern Banjo Frogs.

December B-mail 2010 - Christmas Buddies that Don't Come Down the Chimney.
Featuring Christmas Bush, Christmas Beetle, Mistletoe plant, Mistletoe Bird, Quails, Pheasants, and Little Penguins.

2009

January B-mail 2009 - Sex and Murder in Your Backyard.
Featuring Mantids, Dragonflies, Monarch Butterflies, Mud Wasps, Ants, and Skinks. This B-mail also features a section on creating a garden for wildlife.

February B-mail 2009 - Fat & Fabulous.
Featuring Native Bees, Tawny Frogmouths, Brush-tailed Possum, Leopard Slugs, and backyard bugs. This B-mail also features a section on how to help native animals keep cool in the summer heat.

March B-mail 2009 - Special Edition: Bushfires & Koalas.
Featuring articles from the 'Wildlife Rescue & Information Network', 'Help for Wildlife', 'North East Victoria Wildlife Rescue Inc.', 'BADGAR / Wildlife Rescue & Protection WRAP', and 'Wildlife Victoria'.

April B-mail 2009 - Treechange Backyard Buddies-Style: Leaving the Bush for Suburbia.
Featuring a guide to the goodies and the baddies of the berry world, ideas for attracting birds, Flying-foxes, Microbats. This B-mail also features sections on what you can to do for buddies during times of bushfire and extreme heat.

May B-mail 2009 - Critters in the Litter.
Featuring Worms, Beetles, Snails, Kookaburras, Huntsman Spiders, and fabulous Fungi. This B-mail also features a section on clever landscaping to make your garden inviting for native animals.

June B-mail 2009 - Helpful Habitat.
Featuring Ducks, native Grasses, Eucalypts, Pied Currawongs, and common birds in your garden. This B-mail also lets you know how to create a garden to attract butterflies.

July B-mail 2009 - Good Eggs and Bad Eggs.
Featuring Willy Wagtails, Eastern Yellow Robins, Galahs, Southern Boobook Owls, Wattlebirds, New Holland Honeyeaters, Brown Treecreepers, and Scarlet Robins. This B-mail gives tips on how to create a fantastic garden to feed and shelter migrating birds.

August B-mail 2009 - Winter Draws to a Close.
Featuring Caterpillars, Southern King Parrots, Ringneck Parrots aka the Twenty-eight Parrot, Quolls, Australian Brush Turkeys, Eastern Barred Bandicoots, and Butterflies.

September B-mail 2009 - Backyard Pollinators.
Featuring Bees, Butterflies, Moths, Caterpillars, Wallabies, Kangaroos, and native Orchids.

October B-mail 2009 - Natives Living the High Life.
Featuring native Wasps, Feathertail Gliders, Orchids, Common Koels, Koalas, Masked Lapwings, and Black-chinned Honeyeaters.

November B-mail 2009 - Backyard Predators.
Featuring Ladybirds, Striped Marsh Frogs, Dragonflies, Eastern Water Dragons, Termites, Lerps, and Little Penguins.

December B-mail 2009 - Feasting After the Rains.
Featuring Turtles, native fishes, Rainbow Bee-eaters, Carpet Pythons, Crayfish, and beautiful birdies.

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