yeah when i first saw it i was like oh
my goodness it's so tiny
we were all so thrilled as a team to
find this because yeah we were quite
concerned that there wasn't any left on
the island after the bushfires
and yeah so it's exciting that they must
still be there
they weigh between six and eight grams
uh it's only found
in tasmania and small parts of victoria
and south australia
and then also obviously kangaroo island
quite a few ecologists on the island
were quite concerned that they hadn't
made it through the fires
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i think it's about 93 of the little
piggy fossum habitat has been
burnt they like their thick dense
habitat and that's really gone
up in the west end and luckily in this
area that we were surveying it still has
this bushland left but yeah this was
just an
exciting little discovery
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we've only done the free fauna survey so
there definitely could be more out there
and now that we know a little bit more
about the pygmy possum and also go back
to
our camera data analysis and see if we
can maybe
find some more records of the little
piggy possum
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the big thing about kangaroo island is
because we are an island we have a
stronghold for these species
it's going to be a few years before we
really know their full extent of
um the impact of the bushfires and then
we are now facing another
bushfire season so it's very important
to look after these guys and just
sort out what's going on with them after
the fires