Advocacy – Supporting a particular cause
Arid – Very dry
Biologist – Scientist who studies animals and plants
Burrows – Tunnels dug in the ground where wombats live
Colony – A group of wombats
Conservation – Keep from harm or loss
Critically endangered – Very close to extinction
Diprotodon – Pre-historic wombat-like animal
Endangered – May not be able to survive
Environment – Where animals and plants live
Establish – set up
Extinct – When the last animal dies
Fossil – Animal or plant remains from long ago.
Gestation – Time for a female to carry a developing embryo or young
Habitat – Natural home of a plant or animal
Herbivore – Animals who eat only plants
Herbivorous – Eating only plants
Latitude – Any distance north or south of the equator
Legislation – Laws made by parliament
Legislation – Legal ways to protect wombats
Longitude – Distance east or west of the prime meridian or line from the North to the South Pole
Maintain – Continue and support
Mammal – Animal that produces milk for its young
Mange – Parasite that kills wombats
Marsupial – Mammal with a pouch
Metabolism – A chemical process occurring in a cell
Muscular – Wombat legs and back
Nocturnal – Moving mostly at night
Pasture – An area covered with grass
Pouch – Where baby wombats stay
Predators – Animals or snakes, which can harm wombats
Sedges – Grass-like plants usually growing in swampy areas
Semi-arid – Partly dry
Skeleton – Bones left after an animal has died
Species – Type of plant or animal
Sub-zero – Below freezing
Sustainable – Can continue in an adequate fashion
Threatened – In danger of becoming extinct
Translocation – Move to another site
Tuber – Swollen end of an underground stem
Viewpoint – Having ideas about a subject
Vulnerable – Could be damaged, hurt or attacked