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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Nation failing to pull species back from brink: report

Peter Pigott's property at Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains is a haven for the Parma wallaby. (HANDOUT/WWF-AUSTRALIA)

At 88, Peter Pigott reckons he's spent $2 million keeping Australia's largest population of Parma wallabies alive - but he hasn't seen a cent from the federal government.

His 53-year crusade to save a marsupial once thought extinct is a perfect case study of what's wrong with the country's efforts to save its most imperilled plants and animals. 

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