Marsupial market forces

6 September, 2010


Quoll, or 'native cat'. (What would you feed them? Whiskas? Dine? The pet budgie?)

Marsupial-loving reporter Ian Walker grew up wanting a pet like Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Could encouraging more native mammals as pets be a canny new ‘anti-extinction strategy’…or a future disaster to be cleaned up by the RSPCA? What happens when we apply market forces to the concept of extinction? The results may surprise you.

Thanks to the ABC. Go to their website and download the audio file here

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