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Iron mines imperil the Tasmanian devil

Marc Howe | July 23, 2012 | 2:37 am Australia Iron Ore 

Iron ore mines slated for development in Tasmania's Tarkine region could imperil the survival of the only robust Tasmanian devil population still left in the wild. The Australian reports that Hamish McCallum, head of the School of Environment at Griffith...

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