Once upon a time, an indigenous animal referred to as “The Tasmanian Wolf or Tiger” – in scientific circles the “thylacine” – roamed the island of Tasmania, located at the Southern tip of Australia.

When in 1777 Tasmania became part of the British Empire, British settlers – a hodgepodge of convicts, exiles and outlaws – wasted no time in seizing native land and killing the aborigines in great numbers. At the same time, using the justification of the thylacine preying on their flocks of sheep, they also took it out on this rare and unique species by hunting it down to the last one. In the meantime, in 1832, the Tasmanian aborigines, who managed to escape the slaughter so far, were shipped off to concentration camps on a nearby island. A handful of them were allowed to return to Tasmania in 1847. According to local records, the last Tasmanian aborigine –Truganini – died in 1876… sixty years before the last Tasmanian Wolf – Benjamin - died in captivity at the Hobart Zoo, in 1936.

The Tasmanian wolf, who managed to exist on this island for 30 million years, in harmony with all other beings including indigenous people, stood no chance against the white man, and was wiped out within 160 years of its arrival.
…unless…