'Rarer than pandas', native Australian fauna fight extinction on private land ark | ABC Australia

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There’s a small miracle or two emerging at Secret Rocks near Kimba on South Australia’s central Eyre Peninsula where for the first time in about 150 years bandicoots are living in the mallee woodlands where they once roamed in high numbers.

Some now have young the size of jellybeans in their pouches.

If the population thrives, other species will be returned to the area in the next few years including numbats and phascogales and the mallee woodland will become a living Ark.

It’s all thanks to the work of Dr Katherine Moseby and John Read on their private property – Secret Rocks.

They’re trying to repair over a century of loss and degradation of the natural habitat in a region increasingly hit by heat waves and constantly battling feral predators that wiped out most of the native species in the area.

They have funding to expand their exclosure, which keeps feral animals out while allowing the smaller recovery mammals to move freely, to 4000 hectares.

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