Northern and Yorke Landscape Board is jointly funding a project to monitor and support the brush-tailed bettong population growth, one of Australia’s rarest marsupials, since their reintroduction to the South Australian mainland after an absence of more than 100 years.
Populations in the Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park in the Southern Yorke Peninsula, SA, continues to grow. Almost half of the 85 bettongs caught by researchers were born on Yorke Peninsula and nearly every female was carrying pouch young.
“It’s wonderful to see these Yorke Peninsula-born bettongs are surviving the juvenile stage and now having pouch young of their own” says Chloe Frick, a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.
