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  • Open House: Pookila Reintroduction by Dr Phoebe Burns

    Elliot Centre Ballarto Road/Botanic Drive, Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia

              The Pookila (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) has not been recorded at what has become the RBGV Cranbourne site since 1976 and was thus considered locally extinct.  There was probably a complex play of extinction factors but predation by cats and foxes was likely to be a significant factor. Of course that has…