bilbies

The most remote family in NSW are on a mission. It could change the desert as we know it.

11 Apr 2022

For Bec West and Reece Pedler, it’s an overnight journey to buy groceries and a 350-kilometre round trip to take the kids to playgroup. But they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Native marsupial populations on the rise in Sturt National Park

03 Mar 2022

This World Wildlife Day, we celebrate the three native mammal species – bilbies, crest-tailed mulgaras and Shark Bay bandicoots – now thriving in Sturt National Park since their

Reintroduced mammals now thriving in Sturt National Park

27 Feb 2022

This is the project milestone ecologists had been hoping for.

Bilbies return to Sturt National Park in NSW

30 Sep 2020

Thanks to a NSW government collaboration led by UNSW ecologists and Ecological Horizons with NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Taronga Conservation Society Australia, ten bilbies are set to start a species-led renovation of their desert ecosystem in Sturt National Park.

Ghosts of predators past: 3000 years of evolution with dingoes matters to bilbies

02 Mar 2018

Wild bilbies have learnt to avoid an old enemy, but are less cautious of a newer predator, new research suggests.

Mammal long thought extinct in NSW resurfaces in state’s west

15 Dec 2017

A Crest-tailed Mulgara, a small carnivorous marsupial presumed extinct in NSW for more than century, has been discovered in Sturt National Park north-west of Tibooburra.

Bilbies and bettongs to return to NSW

08 Sep 2017

UNSW scientists will reintroduce seven locally extinct native mammals into large, predator-free exclosures in the state's north-west as part of a NSW government initiative to protect threatened species.

Bilbies bring new life to desert dunes

05 Jun 2009

Bilbies and bettongs can bring degraded desert landscape back to life, according to new study by UNSW