Hopes rewilding critically endangered brush-tailed bettongs will help them bounce back
by Graham Readfearn from Environment | The Guardian on (#6CA24)
Dozens of the ecosystem engineers' have been caught in Western Australia and flown to their new habitat
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As in-flight meals go, sweet potato and mushroom might not be everyone's first choice.
But it was the perfect snack for the 73 critically endangered brush-tailed bettongs as they were flown 2,000kms to a new home on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
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