News - 19 June 2018

Give this fairy’s tale a happy ending

Only the Great Forest National Park will save the Fairy Possum from extinction.

Tell me where the Fairy Possum lives?

The only place on Earth that you will find a Fairy Possum is in Victoria’s Central Highlands – right on Melbourne’s doorstep.

Why is the Fairy Possum threatened?
After decades of clear-fell logging their habitat has been decimated. Right now, state government logging agency, VicForests, is destroying giant Mountain Ash trees where Fairy Possums live. Most of the logged forest is pulped for paper products like Reflex.

What is the Fairy Possum’s current status?
The Fairy Possum was uplisted to critically endangered in 2015 as only about 1,500 possums are left in the wild. They were uplisted because strong scientific evidence based on the current decline says that, if nothing changes, the Fairy Possum will be extinct in our lifetime.

How can I help save the Fairy Possum from extinction?
Protect Mountain Ash forests from logging. Buy 100% post-consumer recycled paper, which is not made from native forests. Help create the Great Forest National Park.

What’s the Great Forest National Park?
The Great Forest National Park proposal is a park for bush users and bush lovers alike. The proposed Park will almost triple the amount of protected forest in the Central Highlands of Victoria – an ecosystem critical for our way of life, and the Fairy Possum’s.

Only the Great Forest National Park will save the Fairy Possum from extinction.