Friday 29th of March 2024

easter bunny declared an ‘essential service’. what about the easter bilby?...

bilbies of the world

The Easter long weekend is looming – and while it’s hardly a typical holiday break, there will still be plenty wanting to spend their days at home indulging in good food and chocolate.

It might be comforting to know, then, that at least one constant has widespread approval to get on with his “essential” job – the Easter Bunny.

“I’m told because he’s a solo operator and an essential service, he or she, will be allowed to continue to operate,” Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy has said.

It’s a view endorsed in at least two Australian states. Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Easter Bunny fitted into the same category as health care workers, military personnel, transport and freight specialists, and MPs, and would be allowed to get on with his job despite the island state’s strict coronavirus travel bans.

“I’ve actually had a number of emails … one from a delightful young fellow whose brother was taken out of school [and had to] self-isolate because he had an underlying health condition,” he told the Nine Network.

 

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/04/07/easter-bunny-coro...

 

Macrotis, known as bilbies or rabbit-bandicoots,[3] is a genus of desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. At the time of European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesser bilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered. It is currently listed as a vulnerable species. It is on average 55 cm (22 in) long, excluding the tail, which is usually around 29 cm (11 in) long. Its fur is usually grey or white, it has a long pointy nose and very long ears, hence earning its nick-name, the rabbit-eared bandicoot.

 

Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrotis

 

Our handmade, Organic Bilby Chocolates are not just delicious & good for you, but also help bilby conservation efforts across Australia.

The Bilby is one of Australia’s most amazing marsupials. Once occurring across a large part of the country, they are now only found in a few small isolated pockets where conservation efforts are necessary to protect this beautiful and iconic animal.

 

Cartoon at top from 1990, by Jeff Allan... (Eric the Echidna series)

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the easter kiwi might help...

 

Easter Bunny 'might not get everywhere this year'


 

While we're looking at New Zealand, this was PM Jacinda Ardern breaking some bad news to the nation's children at a press conference on Monday: the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy may not be able to visit this year because of the lockdown, she said. 

But there might be a solution, she said, and it'll involve some parental help and colouring in.

 

Read more:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52193858

 

 

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hunted by newcomers...

The bilbies 'thriving' after a 100-year absence in New South Wales

Populations of the Australian bilby have been devastated over the past 200 years after being hunted by cats and foxes.

Now a conservation programme has helped the species to breed in the wild in New South Wales for the first time in more than a century.

Ecologists say it gives hope to the threatened species. 

Video by Isabelle Rodd

 

See more:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-53359714/the-bilbies-thrivin...

 

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