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@TEMPLATE edm +PERSONAL -DONATE -- VIEW-ON-SITE -- Fairy Possum critically endangered -- HEADER -- What we’re doing to save an entire species -- CONTENT -- <p> <b>We’re working to help bring the Fairy Possum back from the brink – are you with us?</b> </p> <p> It’s no mean feat to <a #A href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/how-rescue-leadbeater%E2%80%99s-possum-extinction">save native wildlife from extinction</a>, but this and the protection of their native habitats has been the Wilderness Society’s core motivation for over 35 years. </p> <p> With your help, we’re determined to ensure that the Fairy Possum, which has lived in the tall forests of the Central Victorian Highlands for over 20 million years, has a long and happy future. </p> <p> But as with all fairytales, where there is a shy and defenceless fairy to be saved, there is also a villain that must be stopped. </p> <a #BUTTON href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/how-rescue-leadbeater%E2%80%99s-possum-extinction">What’s the plan?</a> <p> Our years of conservation work and study of scientific analysis in the Central Highland forests of Victoria has revealed one very sobering fact that stands out from everything else: </p> <p> <b>If logging of native forests in the Fairy Possum’s only home on Earth continues at its current rate, the Fairy Possum will become extinct within your lifetime.</b> </p> <a href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/fairypossum/start/"><img #WIDE src="https://supporter.wilderness.org.au/image/donations/Fairy-Possum-Fairytale.jpg"/></a> <p> <a #A href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/how-rescue-leadbeater%E2%80%99s-possum-extinction">Help us fight</a> for the Fairy Possum and for the protection of its only home. Together we can try to save a forest from destruction and an entire species from extinction. </p> -- HEADSHOTS -- <img #HEADSHOT src="https://supporter.wilderness.org.au/image/email/wildchat/vica.jpg" alt="" /> -- SIGNATORY -- Vica Bayley -- SIGNATORY-ROLE -- National Director -- POSTSCRIPT -- We are following a <a #A href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/how-rescue-leadbeater%E2%80%99s-possum-extinction">six-step plan to protect the Fairy Possum</a> from extinction based on the recommendations from Professor David Lindenmayer who has studied the possum for over 30 years. You can read more on our <a #A href="https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/how-rescue-leadbeater%E2%80%99s-possum-extinction">website.</a> -- BREAKOUT-TITLE -- Five Fairy Possum facts -- BREAKOUT-BOX -- <ol> <li>Has lived in Central Highlands of Victoria for 20 million years</li> <li>Endangered marsupial, only around 1,500 remain in the wild</li> <li>Its preferred home is the hollows of Mountain Ash trees</li> <li>Mountain Ash are the tallest flowering plants in the world</li> <li>Fairy Possum is the state animal emblem of Victoria.</li> </ol>