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The Tasmanian Tiger
Thylacinus cynocephalus

This is how your grandfather saw the Tassie Tiger

This is how you will see it - EXPLAIN

Discuss this problem in class and see what you as a person can do about it.
Find out about other Australian animals and plants that have met, or are about to meet, the same fate as the thylacine.
What other animals and plants of the world have also meet this end over the last couple of
centuries ? 'Hint', what is meant by the saying 'As dead as a Dodo'?
What was a Dodo, where did it live and why was it hunted (what did we get from it)?
Write a few lines on how you think mankind should attack this problem.

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"Extinction is for ever" EXPLAIN

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