A rope bridge is being hailed as a breakthrough to prevent native possums being killed by both predators and heavy traffic at one of Perth's most sensitive wetlands.
The rope bridge is designed to protect possums from both vehicles and predatorsIn a first for Perth, a cable-tensioned rope net will be strung across a busy road that severed the native habitat of brushtail possums when it was built in the 1990s.
The City of Cockburn said a recent tracking program found very high numbers of possums living around Kogolup Lake, but very few across the northern side of the road at Yangebup Lake in Beeliar Regional Park.
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