Facts about Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Conservation

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   Genetic diversity management is a key concern for northern hairy-nosed wombat conservation because the tiny population suffers from inbreeding due to its small size.

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   Population surveys of northern hairy-nosed wombats use spotlighting, hair-trapping tubes, and camera traps to estimate numbers without disturbing the animals.

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   Critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats are protected partly through predator-proof fencing that surrounds their habitat to exclude dingoes and other threats.

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   A second wild population of northern hairy-nosed wombats was established at Richard Underwood Nature Refuge in Queensland as a conservation safeguard against a single-site catastrophe.

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   The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of the world's rarest mammals, with its entire wild population confined to Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, Australia.

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