Tasmanian devils scored a victory for biodiversity. But the game is rigged against them.

If that smacks of killjoy pessimism to you, well, I’m envious. I wish I could enjoy these conservation victories. But it’s impossible to forget that these Tasmanian devil joeys will grow up in a 1,000-acre animal sanctuary, where they are protected from all sorts of threats such as cars, pesticides, invasive weeds and feral predators. Yes, in a sense that counts as “wild,” but it could also be described as highly controlled.