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Car Boot Libraries, Su Ballard

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The Ecologic Foundation of New Zealand has recently advised drivers to not "use your car boot for permanent storage. The extra weight exacts Its pnce In extra fuel consumption. Despite the warning, the Australian naturalist Merilyn T Grey keeps. a car-boot library. for use on field trips.2 Grey is particularly interested in threatened specles such as the Squirrel Glider, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Regent Honeyeater, Swift Parrot, Pink-Tailed Worm-Lizard and the Woodland Blind Snake, who all live in South Australia's Box-lronb.ark country. With his car boot library Grey is able to travel into the wilderness comfortable In the knowledge that he can …