Returning yalgiri is part of Marna Banggara, an ambitious project to restore lost native wildlife to southern Yorke Peninsula. They were locally-extinct for more than 100 years prior to their reintroduction due to habitat loss and the spread of introduced predators, namely foxes and feral cats.
The latest monitoring of the reintroduced brush-tailed bettongs (known as yalgiri to the local Narungga people) on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula shows positive signs of population growth with the family tree potentially now reaching 10 generations.
Funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners panel.
