Species back from extinction

Audrey Beard processes a red-tailed phascogale as the tiny marsupial makes it way back from the brink of local extinction. Picture: Hannah Nichols
Allan Murphy

ONCE extinct in the mallee woodland of south west New South Wales, the pint-sized, carnivorous red-tailed phascogale is now being recorded leaping around one of Australia’s largest feral predator-free fenced areas. It marks a remarkable turnaround for the species that had been wiped out in NSW for more than a century by introduced cats and […]

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