Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The small, kangaroo-like Brush-tailed Bettong has made a historic return to north-western New South Wales.
Fifty-five individuals were reintroduced to the Pilliga State Conservation Area in September 2022, almost 100 years after the species disappeared from the region.
The truffle-eating bettongs travelled directly via a chartered flight from Western Australia to the Pilliga near Narrabri in the North West Plains, NSW. The animals were sourced from Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s (AWC) Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in the WA Wheatbelt, and Perup Sanctuary (managed by the WA Government) in south-west WA.
The reintroduction was carried out by AWC with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) as part of a mammal reintroduction program which will ultimately return six locally-extinct species to the Pilliga forest.
#AWC #AustralianWildlife #Rewilding #Australia
The small, kangaroo-like Brush-tailed Bettong has made a historic return to north-western New South Wales.
Fifty-five individuals were reintroduced to the Pilliga State Conservation Area in September 2022, almost 100 years after the species disappeared from the region.
The truffle-eating bettongs travelled directly via a chartered flight from Western Australia to the Pilliga near Narrabri in the North West Plains, NSW. The animals were sourced from Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s (AWC) Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in the WA Wheatbelt, and Perup Sanctuary (managed by the WA Government) in south-west WA.
The reintroduction was carried out by AWC with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) as part of a mammal reintroduction program which will ultimately return six locally-extinct species to the Pilliga forest.
#AWC #AustralianWildlife #Rewilding #Australia
