Perspectives begin to shift, as the people of Tasmania begin to recognize the loss of this fascinating marsupial.  It becomes the moral responsibility of the people of Tasmania to preserve and conserve their ecosystem.

David Owen, Old Growth Forrests 

This is a photo used by the Tasmanian Community Alliance, during a state election to gather support for their conservation efforts. It demonstrates what an impact the thylacine had by using it as an example of what not to do.

​​​​​​​"But when, in the case of the thylacine, it is both manifestly unnatural and recent, it becomes our ineluctable duty to learn from the experience” (Owen 51)
The untimely extermination of the thylacine affected the morals of the island. The events compelled them to learn from their errors, and change their policies.

“It is no coincidence that Tasmania, the island that killed its tiger and has regretted it ever since, has much of its land mass locked away as a World Heritage Area and parkland.” (Owen 59)
This extermination affected their perspective so drastically that they sectioned off large swathes of their island for conservation land.

"It was the 1880s that a range of attitudes towards the thylacine first became evident. Newspaper editorials, letters to newspapers, the concerned voices of naturalists and the staff of Hobart's Royal Societhy Museum, who were convinced of the animal's growing rarity, indicated that not everyone consitered it expendable vermin" (Owen 157)
This indicates the turning point in the creatures history, where its rarity began to concern the naturalists, and museum staff of the world, a mentality that would soon spread throuought tasmania.

How did the government handle this new appreciation and concern for the creature?