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Catching Borneo's mysterious wild cats on film
2013-02-07 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In my childhood's biology books from the 50's, the Australian marsupial tiger Thylacine is classified rare but alive. Today we know that the last thylacine died in a Tasmanian zoo 7th September, 1936, after a century of intensive hunting encouraged by bounties. The local government had finally introduced official protection 59 days before the last specimen died. Despite the optimism in my old books, no more thylacines were ever found. No film of it in the wild exists. So, I record wildlife on video....
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