Wild Deserts

Attila Brungs stands near information panels about animals and the desert

Interpretation area for wildlife conservation opens in Sturt National Park

11 Jun 2022

The initiative features work underway through the Wild Deserts consortium between UNSW and Ecological Horizons with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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.

Locally extinct mammals return to NSW’s far west

25 Nov 2020

A UNSW Sydney project has received funding to re-establish locally extinct native mammals beyond small fenced safe havens.

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.

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.

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