Glossary (plus Native Animals in the Text)

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1080: A poison commonly used to control feral animals especially foxes, feral cats and feral pigs.

A

Aerial Culling: The mass shooting of animals from a helicopter.

Australian Bush: Australian term for uninhabited and uncultivated forest land.

B

Blue Mountains: The name of an area in the Great Dividing Range
approximately 100 kilometres west of Sydney.

C

CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. A
government funded organisation.

F

First Fleet: The name of the first settlers from England that landed at Sydney
Cove on the 26th of January, 1788. This voyage was captained by
Captain Arthur Philip.

I

Immunocontraception: To make immune from conceiving, not being able to
give pregnancy due to a protein required to give birth being
removed by a the body's immune system.

Immunocontraceptive: Produced by the body's immune system, which annihilates the protein
required to give birth.

M

Macquarie Island: A sub-Antarctic island that is approximately 1500 kilometres
SE of Hobart, Tasmania. Home of many rare migrational
birds.

R

Rabies: A fatal, infectious disease of the brain, transmitted by the bite of a rabid
animal.

RSPCA: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. An animal
activist group.

S

Sodium Monofluoroacetate: The poison more commonly known as 1080.

W

Wallabies: A small marsupial of close relation to Kangaroos.

Native Animals in the Text

Marsupials

• Brush-tailed Bettong
• Burrowing Bettong
• Eastern and Western Quoll (Native Cat)
• Greater Bilby
• Numbat
• Red-tailed Phascogale
• Spectacled Hare-wallaby
• Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

Reptiles

• Goanna
• Lace Monitor
• Loggerhead Turtle

Others

• Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger/Tasmanian Wolf Extinct (Mammal)
• Wedge-tailed Eagle (Bird of Prey)

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