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A brush-tailed bettong leaps into its new home in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park.

VIDEO: BETTONGS ON BOARD - TINY MARSUPIALS FLY INTERSTATE TO NEW HOME IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

In this video, a group of tiny, critically endangered marsupials were flown over 2,000 km to a new home in South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The brush-tailed...

6 July 2023

Researcher Chloe Frick holds a juvenile male brush-tailed bettong born on the southern Yorke Peninsula.

Critically endangered yalgiri (bettongs) making history on Yorke Peninsula

New monitoring and heartwarming images from the field have confirmed that bettongs, wildlife at the centre of the Marna Banggara project’s tireless...

19 May 2023

A sensor camera photo of a mother wombat and her in joey taken in the Southern Ranges in NSW as part of the Eyes on Recovery project.

Eyes on Recovery is a large-scale sensor camera project. and a collaboration between WWF, Conservation International, and local land managers and research organisations. Google-powered AI technology has been trained to identify Australian animals in photos to track the recovery of threatened species following the 2019-20 bushfires.

Beloved Burrowers: Digging their way into our hearts

Today on World Wombat Day, we celebrate Australia’s most iconic burrowing mammal and all the other diggers that help keep our ecosystems healthy.

19 October 2022

A brush-tailed bettong is released onto Yorke Peninsula

Sea change for bettongs

36 brush-tailed bettongs have made an epic 2,000km journey from Western Australia to their new home on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula!

1 August 2022

Dr Kita Ashman= Patrick Giumelli and Chloe Frick perform a brush-tailed bettong health check in Yorke Peninsula

Tech meets conservation: Using telemetry towers to monitor bettongs

The Marna Banggara project is using telemetry towers to monitor the brush-tailed bettongs that were reintroduced to Yorke Peninsula.

1 May 2022

Brush-tailed bettong in hand= Yorke Peninsula

Bright-eyed brushy-tailed! Welcoming the next generation of bettongs to Yorke Peninsula

A southern Yorke Peninsula born brush-tailed bettong has been found. And if that’s not enough, that female also had a young joey in her pouch!

1 May 2022

How the bettong will transform Yorke Peninsula

This tiny marsupial has the potential to heal land. Read about the project making this happen for a South Australian peninsula.

28 September 2021

Marna Banggara team Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park for the bettong release

In photos: Bettongs home at last on Yorke Peninsula

40 pioneering brush-tailed bettongs from Wedge Island, South Australia have been released at Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park! Take a look at the photos...

27 September 2021

Emotional homecoming for bettongs

40 furry ambassadors for conservation have received an emotional welcome home on the southern Yorke Peninsula, in South Australia. And they’re positively...

24 September 2021

Rambo the brush-tailed bettong (or woylie) in the hands of keeper Brett Haby at Adelaide Zoo

The ultimate comeback: what it takes to translocate bettongs

Some very precious passengers will soon make an epic journey across the Nullarbor Plain. But these aren't your average holiday-makers; in fact, it's a...

6 May 2021

A woylie (or brush-tailed bettong) being measured in Western Australia

Brush-tailed bettongs ready to be rewilding pioneers on Yorke Peninsula

The Marna Banggara project on Yorke Peninsula is a step closer as Western Australian woylies gear up for a historic move to South Australia.

7 April 2021

Cape Spenser lighthouse, Inneston National Park, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, November 2017.
The Yorke Peninsula project, WWF-Australia and partners are aiming at reintroducing up to 27 threatened species back to the Peninsula and ensure the conservation of its unique landscape.

First steps to turning back the tide on Yorke Peninsula

The first steps to restoring the spectacular Yorke Peninsula landscape are well underway, with a 23 km predator-control fence being constructed to protect...

14 November 2019