Australian efforts to save Tasmanian Devil 'not working'

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Updated November 17, 2009 20:42:34

Earlier this month there was the unsettling news that Australia's iconic koalas may die out in the wild within a few decades. Now it has emerged that a plan aimed at saving the Tasmanian Devil has run off the rails. The idea behind the "Save the Tasmanian Devil Program" was to catch 1,500 healthy animals and move them to wildlife sanctuaries and zoos, but four years on, only two-hundred have been caught.

Presenter: Jennifer Macey
Speakers: John Hamilton, director of the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park; Peter McGlone, Tasmanian Conservation; Bruce Englefield, manager, "Devil Island" project; Warwick Brennan, "Save the Tasmanian Devil Program" spokesman

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