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O no: opossums are not at risk in Tasmania

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In your welcome News story highlighting the severe threat to Tasmanian wildlife by the introduction of the red fox from the Australian mainland1, your claim that farmers and foresters use sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) to control opossums and wallabies that graze on crops and native trees in Tasmania is not correct.

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  1. Roe Koh & Associates P/L, PO Box 789, Mornington, 3931, Victoria, Australia

    Thomas L. Montague

  2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK

    Andrew T. D. Bennett

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Possums were correctly identified by the author of the original story. The error was inadvertently introduced during editing — Editor, Correspondence

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Montague, T., Bennett, A. O no: opossums are not at risk in Tasmania. Nature 417, 485 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417485b

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