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Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
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A golden opportunity By Callum Ludwig The Golden Opportunity Shop has been run by the Anglican Parish of Wandin, Seville and Mount Evelyn and a dedicated team of volunteers but its future looks uncertain. Committee Member of the Golden Opportunity Shop Glenda Fraser they are having to give up the shop due to the aging church congregation. “The number of people that can donate time to work in the op shop is just reducing and reducing, my husband and I work a lot behind the scenes, doing the things that nobody else can do, because we’re fairly able-bodied but the big crunch has come because we’re moving out of the area and there’s just nobody to take over the job that we do,” she said. Story page 9
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Possum power By Dongyun Kwon The federal and state governments are hoping to save an endangered species by partnering with a local zoo and group. The Leadbeater’s possum is one of the most threatened marsupials on the planet and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1961 in a forest near Marysville.
It was proclaimed the state faunal emblem of Victoria, alongside the Helmeted Honeyeater, in 1971. Federal environment and water minister Tanya Plibersek announced the launch of the Leadbeater’s Possum Recovery Plan at Healesville Sanctuary on Tuesday 5 March. “Today’s a really exciting day and a day that many Victorian environmentalists have been waiting for and working towards for many
years,” she said. “Leadbeater’s possum is a critically endangered species and a faunal emblem of Victoria which has been under enormous pressure for many years because of logging but also because of the shocking fires that Victoria has experienced and climate change. “This is a species really being brought back from the brink of extinction using science conservation and many volunteer hours with sup-
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port from both the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments.“ The Leadbeater’s Possum Draft Recovery Plan was originally released by the Federal environment department in 2016 and hasn’t been taken into action for a long time. Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum president Steve Meacher said he has been waiting for eight years. Full story page 6