Here we go again, and I wish them luck. The Tasmanian Mercury newspaper’s front page story of 30 October 2013 featured an international team from the United Kingdom which is planning a series of searches in Tasmania’s wilderness for the elusive (some would say, extinct) Tasmanian Tiger, or thylacine. The team’s searches will, it is reported, focus on the northwest and southwest. Not the best places to look, and no need to search anyway – readers of my novel Thylacine Conspiracy will know that the animal is alive and well, and is being raised in captivity in a government compound in northeastern Tasmania, in preparation for its release on Maria Island.