In 2017, a couple moved to a remote outback station in New South Wales, fenced off 4,000 hectares and cleared it of rabbits, cats, foxes; 10 years later, bilbies, bandicoots, bettongs, gone for over 100 years, are back and breeding
What began as an ambitious conservation experiment in one of Australia’s most isolated landscapes has grown into a remarkable wildlife recovery effort. Nearly a decade after moving to a remote station in north-western New South Wales, ecologists Rebecca West and Reece Pedler are witnessing the return of native mammals that had disappeared from the region…
