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Wildlife eating their way across the island

Conservationists dilemma: attempts to plant more trees on Phillip Island being hampered by hungry wildlife.

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Wildlife eating their way across the island
About 90 per cent of plantings in recent years have been lost through grazing by wallabies, possums, Cape Barren geese, purple hens, rabbits and hares, leading to a trial of these new, sculptural tree guards, says Landcare’s Jye Andersen (pictured).
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