Rebecca West

Golden bandicoot being released from a carrying box

A shining success as golden bandicoots return to the desert

05 Jun 2022

Thanks to the Wild Deserts team, a locally extinct species is translocated from Western Australia and reintroduced into Sturt National Park.

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.

Locally extinct bandicoots return to Sturt National Park

10 Aug 2021

After more than a century, locally extinct bandicoots have returned to Sturt National Park.

A bandicoot being released into the desert at night

Bandicoots return to Sturt National Park after more than a century

02 Aug 2021

The locally extinct animals have been reintroduced to the NSW outback as part of a major rewilding project led by UNSW Sydney.

Releasing Bilby back in the Taronga Sanctuary at Dubbo

Landmark release sees bilbies return to Sturt National Park in NSW

24 Sep 2020

A nocturnal marsupial has been reintroduced into a feral-free area created by a UNSW-led project.

Huge feral-free safe haven ready for return of missing desert mammals

22 Apr 2019

UNSW scientists have created a 40-square-kilometre sanctuary for native Australian animals in the Sturt National Park that is completely free of feral animals such as rabbits, foxes and cats.

Know your enemy: Teaching threatened species to be wary of predators

05 Jul 2017

A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing threatened native animals to small numbers of predators in the wild teaches them how to avoid their enemies.