PHOTO: Australia Wildlife Conservancy ecologists are encountering more juvenile bilbies during their 2024 surveys. (Image: Tim Henderson, AWC)
The greater bilby is one of Australia’s iconic marsupials and was once widespread throughout arid and semi-arid Australia, including NSW.
Due to habitat loss and introduced predators and herbivores, the greater bilby has been locally extinct in NSW for more than a century. The last record of bilbies in the wild in NSW was near Wagga Wagga in 1912.
In an attempt to re-establish local communities, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy moved bilbies to semi-arid climate of the Pilliga in late 2018…