The Tasmanian devil joey appears here as part of the RAM's ongoing native fauna circulation program, which has periodically featured threatened species since the 1990s. The devil was listed as endangered under Australian federal law in 2008 following the catastrophic spread of devil facial tumour disease, a transmissible cancer that had already eliminated an estimated 80% of the wild population by that point — one of the most dramatic wildlife collapses in modern Australian natural history.
Charles III's first portrait on Australian coinage, modelled by sculptor Martin Jennings, replaced the Maklouf effigy used since 1985.
The Tasmanian devil joey appears here as part of the RAM's ongoing native fauna circulation program, which has periodically featured threatened species since the 1990s. The devil was listed as endangered under Australian federal law in 2008 following the catastrophic spread of devil facial tumour disease, a transmissible cancer that had already eliminated an estimated 80% of the wild population by that point — one of the most dramatic wildlife collapses in modern Australian natural history.
Charles III's first portrait on Australian coinage, modelled by sculptor Martin Jennings, replaced the Maklouf effigy used since 1985.