The wombat: back from the brink
July 6th, 2009
One of the world’s most threatened mammals manages to go forth into the forest – and multiply
One of the world’s most endangered mammals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat, has stepped back from the brink of extinction, with its numbers undergoing the biggest jump for more than two decades.
However, there are still only 138 wombats, living in one colony in a forest in central Queensland, and scientists fear they could be wiped out by drought, flood, bushfire or disease. So they are planning to ...
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