Did you know?

That the Yara city council has said that possums are harming the elm's, but last year the same trees where being cut down in Curtain Square!

Possums also are beneficial to native trees, as they help to protect them by eating and preventing the spread of fast-spreading weeds.

Possums now occupy only about a third of the amount of land that they started out with, and have mostly disappeared from western and central Australia.

When the Tasmanian tiger problem was going on it resembled the possum problem. One of the last Tasmanian tiger hunters said "Why did you want to go and protect those useless things," and now they are extinct.

Most possums will die if moved to a new habitat, and if they are moved the young will often go to another vacated area.

Miki Bluethorn