IT wasn't long ago that many third-generation farmers on the West Australian wheatbelt had never heard of the brush-tailed bettong, more commonly known as a woylie. Today, they are hoping this critically endangered, wallaby-like marsupial may hold the key to getting passing tourists to stop overnight and put much-needed revenue back into withering rural towns.
Community sanctuaries in which native animal populations can recover behind feral-animal-proof fences are a growing trend in conservation and helping to pull some of Australia's most endangered species back from the brink of extinction.
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