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Shield Force  Western Shield, managed by Western Australia's
Department of Environment and Conservation, is a nature
conservation program safeguarding Western Australia's animals
and protecting them from extinction. The program was set up in
1996 and as of 2009 was the largest and most successful wildlife
conservation program ever undertaken in Australia.  Conservation
practices[edit]  Between the 1920s and 1950s scientists
synthetically developed a poison called sodium fluoroacetate
(commonly called 1080 poison) for use in biological warfare.
Subsequently, it has been found that sodium fluoroacetate occurs
naturally in many plants of the south-west coast of Western
Australia and many of the native mammalian herbivore fauna in
that region have evolved with a natural tolerance to the poison.
The plants in the genus Gastrolobiu