About 35 bilbies bred in captivity have been released across the South-West in an attempt to bolster stocks of the increasingly endangered mammal.At one time found across 70 per cent of Australia, their numbers have been decimated by foxes and feral cats to the point where scientists no longer know how many are left in the wild.
Now existing in scattered and isolated populations across arid regions of WA, the Northern Territory and south-west Queensland, the bilbies have returned to the South-West for the first time since their extinction from the area 30 years ago.
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