Native Phascogales are defying their vulnerable status to thrive around Daylesford

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Updated June 14 2018 - 2:41pm, first published 2:37pm
NATIVE: A wildlife carer holds a young brush-tailed Phascogale, also known as a Tuan, which lives in tree hollows and forages at night on spiders, beetles and other insects.
NATIVE: A wildlife carer holds a young brush-tailed Phascogale, also known as a Tuan, which lives in tree hollows and forages at night on spiders, beetles and other insects.

Brush-tailed phascogales are thriving with five of the tiny native marsupials found during annual monitoring in Hepburn Regional Park and Wombat State Forest.

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Michelle Smith

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