Tasmanian devils have been born on the Australian mainland for the first time in 3,000 years, at the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary in New South Wales. It comes after a concerted conservation effort with NGO Aussie Ark. Host Carol Hills speaks with Rachel Owen, a research fellow at the University of Southampton in the UK, who has studied the facial cancers threatening this species, about the significance of the news.
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