In Memoriam

Tasmanian Tiger7th September 1936

Photo: Tasmania Museum & Art Gallery

Eulogy• First lived on the Australian continent for 2

million years• 3000 yrs ago mass extinction wiped them out

on the mainland, leaning them only in Tasmania

• 1803 European colonisation saw them being shot or trapped

• Feral dogs and diseases further weakened the population

Eulogy• 1930 - Last confirmed record of wild tiger• 1936 – granted legal protection• 7 September 1936 – last surviving Tasmanian

Tiger died after 12yrs captivity in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo.

ExtinctLast footage of a Tasmanian Tiger

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