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Location Specific Impacts:Tiwi Islands (Australia) 
Reduction in native biodiversity: Tall eucalypt forests home to several native mammal species are being cleared for plantations of Acacia mangium. Plans are ongoing to replace at least 25,000 hectares of the tall eucalypt forest with the fast growing and short rotation A. mangium (Firth et al 2006).
Seven of 12 native mammal species examined in a study by Firth et al (2006) were not recorded in the plantations of the alien A. mangium (Firth et al 2006). Species included the 'Near Threatened (NT) brush-tailed tree-rat (see Conilurus penicillatus), the 'Near Threatened (NT) black-footed tree rat (see Mesembriomys gouldii), pale field rat (see Rattus tunneyi), grassland Melomys (see Melomys burtoni), the 'Vulnerable (VU)' Butler's Dunnart (see Sminthopsis butleri), the 'Near Threatened (NT)' brush-tailed Phascogale (see Phascogale tapoatafa) and the sugar glider (see Petaurus breviceps) (Firth et al 2006)
Threat to endangered species: Tall eucalypt forests home to several native mammal species are being cleared for plantations of Acacia mangium. Plans are ongoing to replace at least 25,000 hectares of the tall eucalypt forest with the fast growing and short rotation A. mangium (Firth et al 2006).
Seven of 12 native mammal species examined in a study by Firth et al (2006) were not recorded in the plantations of the alien A. mangium (Firth et al 2006). Species included the 'Near Threatened (NT) brush-tailed tree-rat (see Conilurus penicillatus), the 'Near Threatened (NT) black-footed tree rat (see Mesembriomys gouldii), pale field rat (see Rattus tunneyi), grassland Melomys (see Melomys burtoni), the 'Vulnerable (VU)' Butler's Dunnart (see Sminthopsis butleri), the 'Near Threatened (NT)' brush-tailed Phascogale (see Phascogale tapoatafa) and the sugar glider (see Petaurus breviceps) (Firth et al 2006)
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