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Endangered pygmy possums devastated by bushfires thriving off baked goods made by students
When primary school students in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains heard about the devastation caused by the 2019–2020 bushfire season to the endangered mountain pygmy possum, they put their chef hats on and quickly started cooking up a storm to help.
Key points:
- Most of the mountain pygmy possums’ food supply was destroyed in the 2019-2020 bushfires
- School kids in the NSW Snowy Mountains are baking biscuits to aide their recovery
- Hand-baked ‘bogong biscuits’, made from mealworms, macadamias and minerals, imitate nutrients the animals would get from bogong moths
These tiny possums live in just three isolated spots in sub-alpine and alpine regions of Victoria and New South Wales.
Discovery Coordinator for Kosciuszko National Park, Dan…
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