00:03These pocket-sized possums spend half the year living under rocks on the peaks of the
00:08snowy mountains, but global warming has left this native species exposed.
00:13Snakes and cats and foxes and those sort of things predate on mountain swimming possums.
00:18Here at the Secret Creek Sanctuary, conservationists are preparing the marsupials for warmer temperatures
00:23by breeding them at a lower altitude.
00:25Breeding them here at a thousand metres will help them live through climate change.
00:31We're adapting them to lower altitudes and higher temperatures and different mating cycles.
00:36It's led to rapid growth in the number of possums at the sanctuary.
00:40We started off with six possums many years ago, but since then we've grown the population to about 36
00:46over a matter of probably six years, seven years.
00:51It's hoped the research will eventually arrest the decline of these mountain pygmy possums.
00:56It feels really good to be involved and I think if we don't do it and no one does, it's
01:01a species we could lose.
01:03A species on the brink, adapting to a new climate.
01:07The attraction is simple, but it's a solo and the distances cannot vary.
01:10Fake son rich accordingly on além of the species.
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