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Australian researchers have turned to crowdfunding to help bankroll a new technology to save the critically endangered swift parrot from extinction in the island state of Tasmania.
Scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) revealed that they were seeking donations from the public to help save the swift parrot, which is currently at risk of extinction due to predatory sugar gliders — a species of gliding possum introduced to Tasmania early last century.
ANU conservation scientist Dejan Stojanovic said the number of swift parrots in Tasmania had been consistently declining as a result of being massacred by sugar gliders, which love to eat the small birds as well as eggs and chicks at night when the parrots sleep.
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