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I saw an ABC news item for National Science Week, Science quiz: How much do you know about our native flowers? Excellent! …except I couldn’t get past the first question. “Australian orchids, like this Queen of Sheba, are famously difficult to pollinate because they need? — A, a particular microclimate; B, a specific fungal partner; C, a certain soil type; D, all of the above.”

Where’s E, none of the above? None of these have anything to do with pollination.

On News Breakfast this morning, the SA Minister for Climate, Environment and Water said four fauna specialists have been brought in to help with relocating possums in the area where trees are currently being chopped down to make way for an expansion of the North Adelaide golf course. Yet the department is quite clear that “Relocation often results in the death of the possum due to competition for food and shelter with other possums who will defend their area aggressively. Possums are highly territorial and therefore it is a permit condition that trapped possums must be released within their home range, on the same property they were captured, and within 50 metres of the capture site”.

I guess it’s possible there are large tracks of appropriate habitat, nearby, presently uninhabited by possums?