Leadbeater's possum faces 'managed extinction' without action

By Rosslyn Beeby
Updated April 18 2018 - 9:50pm, first published March 27 2012 - 3:00am

Australia will witness the ''managed extinction'' of one of its rarest mammals, Leadbeater's possum, unless the federal government intervenes to save its old growth mountain ash habitat, a leading scientist says.

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