Woylies the key to sandalwood, quandong regeneration

摘要

At the time of European settlement the woylie (Bettongia pencillata) or brush-tailed bettong, a small marsupial, was extremely common and occurred in large numbers across the southern third of the continent. Tragically, in just 100 years the woylie had declined to the point that it existed in only three small remnant patches of woodland in the south-west of Wester n Australia and was on the brink of extinction. The good news is that recent conservation efforts by the Department of Conservation and Land Management has seen a remarkable come back of the woylie, so much so that in 1996 the woylie wasreclassified to non-threatened.