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Conservation Science on the Edge: Saving the Tasmanian Devil from a Dastardly Disease

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Summary

Learn more about the Tasmanian Devil and how we might save it from extinction.

Start Date

26th Aug 2012 10:30am

End Date

26th Aug 2012 11:30am

Venue

Lecture Theatre 1, Life Sciences Building, UTAS, Churchill Avenue, Sandy Bay

RSVP / Contact Information

www.utas.edu.au/openday

The Tasmanian devil is threatened with extinction from a very unusual contagious cancer. Dr Menna Jones from the UTAS School of Zoology, explains how we are using a multidisplinary approach to understand the disease and save the devil from extinction.