Editing Sugar glider (section)

=== As a pet ===
In several countries, the sugar glider (or what was formerly considered to be the sugar glider) is popular as an [[exotic pet]], and is sometimes referred to as a [[pocket pet]]. In Australia, there is opposition to keeping native animals as pets from Australia's largest [[wildlife rehabilitation]] organisation ([[NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service|WIRES]]),<ref>{{cite web|date=25 January 2019|title=Native Animals are not pets|url=https://www.wires.org.au/blog/native-animals-are-not-pets|access-date=10 March 2019|website=NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service Blog January 2019}}</ref> and concerns from [[Conservation in Australia#Conservation organisations|Australian wildlife conservation organisations]] regarding animal welfare risks including neglect, cruelty and abandonment.<ref name="Wild42">{{cite web|title=Sugar Gliders|url=https://www.wild4life.org.au/sugar-gliders.html|access-date=10 March 2019|website=Wild4Life}}</ref>

In Australia, sugar gliders can be kept in Victoria, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. However, they are not allowed to be kept as pets in [[Western Australia]], [[New South Wales]], [[the Australian Capital Territory]], [[Queensland]] or [[Tasmania]].<ref>{{cite web|title=DixiGliders|url=http://www.dixiglen.com.au/sugargliders.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120141148/http://www.dixiglen.com.au/sugargliders.html|archive-date=20 January 2011|access-date=31 December 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.wildlife.org.au/projects/gliders/image/qgn12.pdf Wildlife – Queensland Gliders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420214506/http://wildlife.org.au/projects/gliders/image/qgn12.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://wildlife.org.au/projects/gliders/image/qgn12.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|date=20 April 2013}}. (PDF) . Retrieved 2014-04-19.</ref>

DNA analysis indicates that "the USA (sugar) glider population originates from [[West Papua (province)|West Papua, Indonesia]] with no illegal harvesting from other native areas such as Papua New Guinea or Australia".<ref name="Campbell-2019">{{cite journal|last1=Campbell|first1=Catriona D.|last2=Pecon-Slattery|first2=Jill|last3=Pollak|first3=Rebecca|last4=Joseph|first4=Leo |last5=Holleley|first5=Clare E.|date=2019-01-08|title=The origin of exotic pet sugar gliders (''Petaurus breviceps'') kept in the United States of America|journal=PeerJ|language=en |volume=7|pages=e6180|doi=10.7717/peerj.6180|issn=2167-8359|pmc=6329365|pmid=30643698 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Given that the West Papuan gliders have been tentatively classified as [[Krefft's glider]]s (albeit to be changed in the future),<ref name="ASM-PetNotatus"/> this indicates that at least the captive gliders kept in the United States are Krefft's gliders, not sugar gliders.