Back from the brink
Mar 23, 2021
3 minutes
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY
Numbats are rarer than the giant panda or the black rhino, and there are estimated to be fewer than 1000 of them in the wild in a tiny pocket of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. So it’s hardly surprising there was much excitement when the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) released 15 of the endangered, uber-cute little marsupials into a protected part of the Mallee Cliffs National Park in southwestern NSW.
The striking rusty
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