Critically endangered bettongs thrive in South Australia reserve after local extinction
New monitoring has revealed the population of brush-tailed bettongs continues to grow in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes national park – a promising sign for Marna Banggara, an ambitious project to restore lost native wildlife to southern Yorke Peninsula, where up to 95% of native animals are locally extinct.
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Bettongs were chosen because they dig through the earth at night foraging for fungi, which helps improve the quality of the soil. ’It’s fantastic to see so many new animals in the population,’ says Derek Sandow, a Northern and Yorke Landscape Board ecologist. ’It shows that the bettongs we released in 2021 and 2022 are comfortable in the landscape, they’re finding food, they’re finding shelter and they’re finding mates’
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