By Dani Ryder | Fundraising Manager
I’m thrilled to announce that Brush-tailed Bettongs have made a triumphant return to the Northern Territory at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary. Their reintroduction is the latest step by Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) to restore the missing mammals of Central Australia, and took place in the same week as we celebrate thirty years of effective conservation.
AWC’s mammal reintroduction project at Newhaven is returning a suite of locally extinct species to the Central Australian landscape. It represents one of Australia’s most ambitious rewilding programs: at least ten species are being restored in free-ranging, self-sustaining populations within the sanctuary’s vast 9,450-hectare fenced, feral predator-free safe haven. Malas and Red-tailed Phascogales have already been reintroduced and further translocations this year will see Burrowing Bettongs join them.
I look forward to providing you an update soon after our next translocation.
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