‘It’s like time-travelling,’ says Dr Rebecca West – ‘we’re reversing and going back to what it would have been like 200 years ago’
A bilby is released as part of the Wild Deserts project in NSW’s Sturt national park, where a bilby population now flourishes.A bilby is released as part of the Wild Deserts project in NSW’s Sturt national park, where a bilby population now flourishes.Twenty burrowing bettongs and 20 western quolls have been released into Sturt national park as part of the Wild Deserts project. They joined previously released and flourishing populations of bilbies, bandicoots and mulgaras .
The arid zone, which covered 70% of Australia, was one of the country’s most changed ecosystems, West said. As native mammals were “wiped out”, the desert environment became less resilient and less diverse.A partnership between Wild Deserts and NSW National Parks was reversing that process. Starting with bilbies and mulgaras, mammals had been gradually reintroduced into two predator-free havens and a larger 100 sq km “training zone”.
Quolls and bettongs were supplied by Arid Recovery in South Australia and Taronga Western Plains zoo in NSW.
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