Save the Tasmanian Devil Traditional Geocache
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Nice park cache near a little pond in Lakeville there is play
equipment for the kiddies along with an ice rink during winter.
Please park in the parking lot. Take a walk around the pond its
soothing. Please replace exactly as you found or better.
Please help spread the word that the Tasmanian Devil needs your
help… The Tasmanian Devil is in Danger - not Dangerous! The
Tasmanian Devil is the symbol of the Tasmanian National Parks and
Wildlife Service. Tasmanian devils became extinct on mainland
Australia for 600 years. The Devil Facial Tumour Disease, is having
a devastating effect on the Tasmanian devil population which had
recovered from population decline in the 1940's when it was feared
the animal would follow the thylacine into extinction. The
Tasmanian Devil is now listed as vulnerable in Tasmania. It has
been over ten years since the facial tumour disease was discovered
in the Tasmanian Devil. Since then ground breaking research has
almost certainly established that the disease is a cancerous cell
line transmitted by allograft - that is by a bite from a diseased
devil leads to the tumour directly invading the second animal
without being destroyed by the immune system. Devils commonly give
and receive bites during mating and feeding. Devils only live for
about 5 years in the wild and raise few young to maturity. Hopes
rest on maintaining breeding populations isolated from the
infectious wild population and urgent research. Once used to
isolate convicts and not naturally home to the tassie devil, Maria
island on Tasmania's east coast, is being used to isolate an off
show wild insurance population. The Trowunna Wildlife Park, Mole
Creek Tasmania breeding population has recently become infected
although the 2 devils sent from there to Denmark are believed to be
disease free. Other facilities around the state remain disease free
and Australia Zoo maintains a disease free priority breeding
program on the mainland. Several government and independant
initiatives are in place to prevent the disease from wiping out the
Tasmanian Devil population. Last year about 26 juvenile devils were
taken into captivity from all the last remaining disease-free areas
in the state, to capture the genetic diversity across the state.
For more information please visit the following link, a foundation
setup by the University of Tasmania -
http://www.utas.edu.au/foundation/devil.htm There is a custom metal
nickel ( I kinda had to cut it to fit in the cache) for the FTF
Special Events: 1-15-07: Daddotimes4 - FTF If you have a special
Event like first ever find or ?00 find using this cache email me
and I will add your event to the list.
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