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Fit for a princess: Australia gifts royal baby a wool blanket and cash donation for pygmy possums
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Australia will give a blanket made of Tasmanian merino wool and a $10,000 donation to a Victorian sanctuary for the endangered mountain pygmy possum to the newborn daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Guardian.com reported.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, made the announcement on Monday, one day after the duchess gave birth at St Mary’s hospital in London, adding: “I hope one day the princess can visit Australia and hold a mountain pygmy possum herself," the report said.
The blanket will be embroidered with the Australian floral emblem, the wattle, by members of the Australian Capital Territory embroiderers’ guild.
The donation recipient, the Healesville sanctuary in rural Victoria, supports a captive breeding program of the mountain pygmy possum, Australia’s only hibernating marsupial. There are fewer than 2,000 left in the wild.
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