{"id":1672,"date":"2016-10-11T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2020-02-27T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:43:23","slug":"update-on-our-maria-island-tasmanian-devil-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/news\/2016\/10\/update-on-our-maria-island-tasmanian-devil-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on our Maria Island Tasmanian Devil Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">With\u00a0the return of<a href=\"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/productions\/devil-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0DEVIL ISLAND<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/tv\/programs\/devil-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC TV <\/a>(Episode 3 airs 11am Friday 14 October 2016), we thought it was time to give our Devil fans an update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You may recall that 15 devils were relocated to Maria Island in late 2012. Since then the animals have been busy breeding and have now grown the island\u2019s Tasmanian devil population to around 82 adults. Sadly, at least four of the devils followed in the<i> Devil Island<\/i> T<i>V<\/i> series have died due to old age (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/mammals\/t\/tasmanian-devil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">average devil lifespan<\/a> is up to five years).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This successful population growth has provided animals for release back onto the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In late August 2016, thirty-three healthy Tasmanian devils we<\/span><span class=\"s2\">re\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-08-31\/healthy-tasmanian-devils-released-to-test-vaccine-efficacy\/7802672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released onto the mainland at Stony Head in Tasmania\u2019s north<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">. \u00a0These devils have been immunised with a vaccine that has been developed to combat the devil facial tumour disease, which has wiped out more than eighty percent of the devil population since it emerged twenty years ago. \u00a0These immunised devils will interact and breed with the wild, diseased population at the Stony Head release area, bolstering their genetic diversity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Twenty-five of these released immunised devils have been fitted with satellite tracking collars so that scientists can monitor their progress. We wish them luck in the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For further info check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tassiedevil.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save The Tasmanian Devil <\/a>website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0the return of\u00a0DEVIL ISLAND\u00a0to ABC TV (Episode 3 airs 11am Friday 14 October 2016), we thought it was time to give our Devil fans an update. You may recall that 15 devils were relocated to Maria Island in late 2012. Since then the animals have been busy breeding and have now grown the island\u2019s Tasmanian devil population to around 82 adults. Sadly, at least four of the devils followed in the Devil Island TV series have died due to old age (the average devil lifespan is up to five years). This successful population growth has provided animals for release back onto the mainland. In late August 2016, thirty-three healthy Tasmanian devils were\u00a0released onto the mainland at Stony Head in Tasmania\u2019s north. \u00a0These devils have been immunised with a vaccine that has been developed to combat the devil facial tumour disease, which has wiped out more than eighty percent of the devil population since it emerged twenty years ago. \u00a0These immunised devils will interact and breed with the wild, diseased population at the Stony Head release area, bolstering their genetic diversity. Twenty-five of these released immunised devils have been fitted with satellite tracking collars so that scientists can monitor their progress. We wish them luck in the wild. For further info check out the Save The Tasmanian Devil website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tassie_Devil_Release.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360degreefilms.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}