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1. The dramatic spread of Cane _ _ _ _ _ is resulting in the poisoning deaths of many quolls after they eat them for food.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Queensland Quolls

5. School students can make a difference! By entering this crossword competition, you are learning about and helping to _ _ _ _ endangered species.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Face The Challenge

7. For thousands of years before the 1900s, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ people burned small patches of spinifex country. The regrowth produced new succulent leaves important for the survival of many native species.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: NT Government

8. Save the Bilby Fund has had success in reintroducing bilbies to the wild inside a predator-proof _ _ _ _ _.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Dreamworld

9. The introduced feral Red Fox is one of the main predators of Australian animals. Its scientific name is Vulpes _ _ _ _ _ _.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Ferals

12. The bite of a Woma Python is not _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ because it is not venomous. It kills its prey by squeezing it in the coils of its body.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Woma Python

13. Cyclone Yasi seriously damaged rainforest areas in Mission Beach and surrounding areas on 3rd February 2011. Volunteers are providing feeding stations for the endangered Cassowary population until the rainforest recovers and grows _ _ _ _, which may take years.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Rainforest Rescue
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO: Bob Irwin

14. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pygmy-possums are only found in Australia and are this country's only hibernating alpine marsupial. Previously thought to be extinct, small wild populations still survive, however climate change is causing the snow they need to rapidly receed.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife

16. The Spotted-tailed _ _ _ _ _ is the largest marsupial predator on mainland Australia. It hunts birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and frogs.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Australian Ecosystems Foundation

18. Northern Giant-Petrels live predominantly on the ocean, mainly coming to land for breeding purposes. They are built to live on the water and have amazingly large _ _ _ _ _ _ feet to help them swim.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Antarctica

19. Many of Australia's creatures are not found anywhere else in the world. In the last 200 years since settlement, hundreds of these _ _ _ _ _ _ species have become extinct.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Australian Government

20. The Orange-bellied Parrot is a very rare migratory bird. Birds live on the south-eastern coast of mainland Australia in winter, _ _ _ _ _ _ south to Tasmania in summer to breed.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Birds Australia

21. The Northern Hairy-nosed _ _ _ _ _ _ is a heavily built animal with a broad head, short legs and strong claws to dig burrows.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Wombat Foundation

Down
1. The introduced Crown of _ _ _ _ _ _ starfish is one of a few animals that feed on living coral tissue. When the starfish are in large numbers they can eat corals faster than corals can grow causing long term damage to the reef.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Threats

2. Margaret River Burrowing Crayfish _ _ _ complex burrows that can be several metres deep. The burrows are indicated by a chimney of soil pellets on the top of the ground in the wetlands they inhabit.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Margaret River Burrowing Crayfish

3. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is only found in Australia. It lives in fresh water, has a duck-like bill, broad flat tail, thick brown fur and four legs.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland

4. A young seal is called a pup, whereas a young whale is called a _ _ _ _. Both seals and whales are marine mammals.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: AUSMEPA
(see Classification and Survival)

6. The endangered Kroombit Tinker Frog is an _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, which means it changes from a water-breathing animal into an adult air-breathing animal as it grows.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Kroombit Tinker Frog

9. Male platypus protect themselves by using spurs on their hind legs which inject _ _ _ _ _.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Wildwatch

10. Water pollution seriously affects the health of sea creatures. They may become _ _ _ _ from chemicals or poisons and are then at greater risk of attack by predators.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: AUSMEPA

11. The Leadbeater's Possum is a small tree-dwelling marsupial. It is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, meaning that it sleeps during the day and wakes at night.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Friends of Leadbeater's Possum

13. Save the _ _ _ _ _ Fund works to research and conserve the Bilby from extinction and also to educate Australians about their responsibility to protect all endangered species.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Frank Manthey & Peter McRae

15. The Boodie, or Burrowing Bettong, was _ _ _ _ a very common marsupial on mainland Australia.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Shark Bay WA

17. The Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle population is estimated to be less than 1,000. Eagles build a _ _ _ _ from sticks in which they lay their eggs.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Birds Australia
(Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle habits are similar to the White-bellied Sea-Eagle VIDEO can be viewed on Eaglecam)

18. Hawksbill Turtles bury their eggs in sand on the beach and the temperature of the nest affects the sex of the hatchlings. Cool nests produce more males, while _ _ _ _ nests produce more females.
CLICK HERE FOR CLUE: Hawksbill Turtle