Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland after centuries

Tasmanian devils have been born on the Australian mainland for the first time in 3,000 years, at the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary in New South Wales. It comes after a concerted conservation effort with NGO Aussie Ark. Host Carol Hills speaks with Rachel Owen, a research fellow at the University of Southampton in the UK, who has studied the facial cancers threatening this species, about the significance of the news.

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