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 "The Bobuck
Underground" is a biodiversity survey of Mountain Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus cunninghami) that live in lowland Gippsland, the
eastern province of Victoria in Australia. They are remarkable because they appear to be survivors from the days before the West Strzelecki forest was cut down in the late 19th through to the early 20th century. They have survived the destruction of their forest home by adapting to habitat niches that are unusual for an animal that, technically speaking, is arboreal. Hence the play-on-words for our survey name: The Bobuck Under Ground.
These animals are living testimony to life's resilience: Life Will Find A Way. But they also tell us how important it is to preserve our native forests. For without isolated patches of remnant habitat in Gippsland, their kind of life may not have found a way. |
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