THYLACINE TRACKS FOUND, CAST
THE Tasmanian Tiger is still in existence, according to a report from a party of eight members of the Launceston Walking Club. The party has been spending a fortnight exploring the rugged mountainous area of the South-West between Butlers Gorge and the Port Davey track. Fresh tracks were discovered on a button grass plain in a remote valley, which is evidently the hunting ground of a tiger.
The tracks were first noticed by Miss B. Seaton, and their identity was confirmed by Mr. L. D. Crawford, who is the scientific assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Plaster casts were made of a number of the footprints. The information will be sent by the museum to the U.N.E.S.C.O.-sponsored International Union for the Protection of Nature (Survival Service) which has declared the tiger to be one of the world’s 14 rarest mammals, and is concerned with its chance of survival.
THE Tasmanian Tiger is still in existence, according to a report from a party of eight members of the Launceston Walking Club. The party has been spending a fortnight exploring the rugged mountainous area of the South-West between Butlers Gorge and the Port Davey track. Fresh tracks were discovered on a button grass plain in a remote valley, which is evidently the hunting ground of a tiger.
The tracks were first noticed by Miss B. Seaton, and their identity was confirmed by Mr. L. D. Crawford, who is the scientific assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Plaster casts were made of a number of the footprints. The information will be sent by the museum to the U.N.E.S.C.O.-sponsored International Union for the Protection of Nature (Survival Service) which has declared the tiger to be one of the world’s 14 rarest mammals, and is concerned with its chance of survival.
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas: 1860 – 1954) Mon 12 Jan 1953, Page 6