Pygmy Possums

This video is part of a story at http://climateXchange.aspacnet.org/story_63.html

The video features Dr Linda Broome and Bec Gibson working with Australian alpine pygmy possums. The possums only weigh 40 g and are the only hibernating marsupial.

Pygmy possums are threatened by a decline in the annual snowfall. They are also suffering from a shortage of food caused by drought, especially the migrating bogong moth.

Pygmy possums are endangered, and there are only a thousand or so of them left in a few boulder fields above 1800 m in the NSW and Victorian Alps.

The story was filmed at Charlotte Pass, a ski resort in Kosciuszko National Park.

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[INDO45]

You have so high sense love to this little animal, All the best.

[YarraPenguin]

Excellent description on the status of the possum. Well Done!

[JMCCOY1]

Great footage of this beautiful little animal.