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    Population Report of Tasmania Introduction Population is now being greatly realized as a principle element of regional or local economic development.(此处有reference) Understanding the role that population play in a regional or local area is significant as well as effective to facilitate economic growth and organize economic activities. This report is to collect and illustrate the data in relation to population of Tasmania including but not limited to population pyramid, employment, transportation

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    land of Tasmania, There was a black striped assassin, known as the thylacine. This Striped hound, was located in two places, in the dry lands of Australia, and the island of Tasmania. This cunning black striped tiger, was the main predator of these strange lands, and was a vicious marsupial. Inadequately, our ignorance, resulted in these magnificent species of animal, unlawful, non deserved, gruesome total extinction. Habitat These creatures, mainland was specifically Tasmania, and

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    called OsHV-1 micro variant. It has been present in three estuary systems in NSW - Georges River, Parramatta River and the Hawkesbury River. A suspect case has also recently been detected in involvement with mortalities of farmed Pacific Oysters in Tasmania. The first reported POMS mortality outbreak in Australia was recorded in NSW in 2010. POMS affects Pacific Oysters only, with no other oyster species at risk. This virus cannot be transmitted to humans and there are no human health insinuations.

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    Today I will tell you about the Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Tassie Tiger. The Tasmanian tiger isn’t even a cat, so why call it a tiger? It is known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striping on the back. Although, some Australians call it the Tasmanian wolf. The Tasmanian tiger is actually part of the dog and marsupial families. Some Australians believe that the tassie tiger is still alive and is just good at hiding. The Australians even offered a million US dollars for anyone to prove

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    THE TASMANIAN TIGER (Thylacinus cynocephalus) On April 25,1857 I Riley J Petersen found a species man has never seen before. I was off the coast of Australia, on an island called Tasmania. At first I thought I had stumbled across a pack of wild dogs, but as I got closer I realized that these are no dog. Description The species seems to be dog but it had the stripes of a tiger on its rear end. Picture a animal with the body of a large dog with a stiff rodent like tail. The head of a wolf

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    myelination pathways, a component of Schwann Cells (Murchison et al., 2009). The disease is highly infectious, and has spread at a rapid speed through the population, with it spreading from the first sole report in the very north-eastern corner of Tasmania in 1996, to occurring across 59% of the Tasmanian Mainland just over 10 years later in 2007 (Figure 1). Recent findings have also shown that a new Facial Tumour Disease, called DFT2, has arisen recently. It is indistinguishable from DFTD apart from

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    to save devils. Tasmanian devil is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world. The scientific name of Tasmanian devil is Sarcophilus harrisii. Tasmanian devil belong to the family of Dasyuridae and it is found in the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of the Tasmanian devil is equivalent to a small dog with black fur and thick-set body. Tasmanian devil are regarded as endangered species now-a-days. The population of Tasmanian devil is continuously decreasing. In the mid of 1990 the population

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    Proterozoic basins on the south Australian island, Tasmania. Zircon minerals occur as a trace component in many sedimentary rocks. Therefore due to its widespread occurrence and its relative resistance to both mechanical and chemical weathering, which enhances its chance of survival through processes of transportation, dating methods through zircon minerals have become a standard for dating sedimentary basins (Black et al). The Rocky Cape Group of northwest Tasmania provides an insight into the record of the

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    THE TASMANIAN TIGER The Tasmanian tiger was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the thylacine or the Tasmanian wolf. Native to continental Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, it is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the late Oligocene.( Information from Tasmanian tiger/facts)

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    a response to growing cold war tensions that stretched into the Australian political arena and became a source of disillusionment with Whitlam’s Government. The nuclear disarmament campaign helped the Greens expand their supporter base outside of Tasmania and into NSW, Queensland and WA, uniting a number of social movements “by a tacit acceptance of the primacy of ecological politics” (Tietze 2010:30). The mutual concern by environmentalists in the Tasmanian conservationists and the anti-Nuclear groups

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