Because of a contagious cancer.
[a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090522/ts_afp/australiaanimalenvironmentdevil"]http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090522/ts_afp/australiaanimalenvironmentdevil[/a]
[span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; mozbackground-clip: mozinitial; mozbackground-origin: mozinitial; mozbackground-inline-policy: mozinitial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1242961284_0"]Australia's Tasmanian devil[/span], the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, will be listed as endangered because of a contagious and deadly cancer, the government said. "This disease has led to the decline of about 70 percent of the [span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1242961284_1"]Tasmanian devil[/span] population since the disease was first reported in 1996," Environment Minister [span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; mozbackground-clip: mozinitial; mozbackground-origin: mozinitial; mozbackground-inline-policy: mozinitial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1242961284_2"]Peter Garrett[/span] said in a statement.[/p] [span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1242961284_3"]Devil facial tumour disease[/span], which is spread through biting, kills the animals usually within three months by growing over their faces and mouths, preventing them from eating.[/p]
[/p]Yes, Peter Garrett is the environment minister of Australia
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