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Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success

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Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success
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Fifty ‘founder’ bilbies were released in fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing first wild population there in a century

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Efforts to reintroduce bilbies in the far south-west of New South Wales are showing signs of success, with numbers climbing to almost 2,000, seven years after the first breeding trial at Mallee Cliffs national park.

Fifty “founder” bilbies, including 30 from Thistle Island off the coast of South Australia, were released in a fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing a wild population in the Mallee Cliffs habitat for the first time in a century.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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