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G’Day everyone -
The Bramble Cay Melomys, like me - it’s blonde, it’s adorable, and we both used to live in the land down under.

I don’t live in Australia anymore, because I f*cked off to America!

But the Bramble Cay Melomys doesn’t live in Australia anymore, because it’s dead. It was just wiped out by climate change.

Now, humans have killed off many mammal species before, including:
TASMANIAN TIGER: HUNTING
WESTERN BLACK RHINO: POACHING
VAKIDA - OVERFISHING
YANGTZE DOLPHIN: POLLUTION
SOUTH CHINA TIGER: POACHING
SAUDI GAZELLE: HUNTING
And CHRISTMAS ISLAND SHREW (thanks to the INTRODUCED SPECIES yellow crazy ant - and yes - those ants are deadset mental)

But the Bramble Cay Melomys is the FIRST mammal to die out due to climate change. Ummm, Congrats Australia?

So, how exactly did the adorable rat-like Bramble Cay succumb to climate change?

Was it that, it didn’t have adequate access to food, unlike the pizza rat? Nope.
Was it that it looked like a rat, and it basically was a rat, so no one gave a rats arse? Kinda, Basically. Yeah.

Scientists and the conservation community knew the Melomys was critically endangered – for a while. They believe the last melomys may have drowned in a storm surge that, because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, flooded the entire island.

But It was only when someone formally declared the Bramble Cay as dead, did anyone care that it had been alive. Common story – just look at Van Gogh, Galileo and the 9/11 hijackers.
Here’s what’s frustrating. Experts like Dr John Woinarski said the death of the melomys was entirely foreseeable and preventable.
“IT SUFFERED FROM LIVING A LONG WAY AWAY FROM ANYWHERE ELSE, BEING A RAT, AND BEING NOT PARTICULARLY ATTRACTIVE.” - DR JOHN WOINARSKI
IT “(IT) WAS NOT AN ANIMAL CHARISMATIC ENOUGH TO GARNER MUCH PUBLIC ATTENTION.” - DR JOHN WOINARSKI
So in other words, if you want to not become extinct, you better bloody be the Cardi B of the animal kingdom.
Obviously Australia is very sad and ashamed at the death of one of our own – so they’re totally reformed they’re climate change policies!

Just kidding! Australia doesn’t give a shit.

The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison – has got his hands in the pockets of big coal - and told Aussie kids on climate strike to “get back to school”. Dianne Feinstein, eat ya heart out.

I should note here that the past last five Aussie summers have been like - each hotter than the last by record breaking amounts - which is by American standards – bloody hot. Not to mention longer droughts, more (and worse) bushfires, floods, you name it. Oh – and our coral reefs – bleached to high heavens. Literally.

But this story isn’t just about my home country. Many more species are still vulnerable to rising sea levels and extinction from climate change.

Consider this: Could we, humans, be the next Bramble Cay Melomys?

Okay that’s an exaggeration, of course we won’t be the NEXT – but if we don’t get our shit together soon, well, let’s just say the endangered list is not a good place to be.

But whadda you guys reckon? Are you as outraged as me at the loss of this adorable rodent? Let me know in the comments below.

And, in honor of the Bramble Cay Melomys, I’ll now send you off with some photos of this lovable rat in happier times.

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Christmas Island Flying Fox
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