A #mulgara is released by scientist Rebecca West in the Wild Deserts precinct of Sturt National Park, New South Wales, #australia. Many of the country’s distinctive small marsupials – the bilbies, bandicoots and quolls – have been missing for a century or more, wiped out by land clearing and the hunting prowess of feral cats.
Photograph: Richard Freeman/UNSW
Marsupials are underrated Australian survivors. It’s time to get to know them better
A small golden animal with shovel-like claws swims through the red sand of Australia’s central desert in pursuit…
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