Mallee emu-wren breeding itself back from extinction

[davidc4430]

'Tenacious' Mallee emu-wren breeding itself from South Australian extinction

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-08/mallee-emu-wren-breeding-out-of-sa-extinction/10593932

good news for these little birds, adding the rabbit gene really works

[marwi_3023]

Unfortunately there is nothing to stop a fire doing it again and if both enclaves of the Mallee Emu Wren experience fires at the same time they are gone forever.
They really should be breeding more rather than moving them because the total population would be increasing rather than just being spread out

[chameleon54]

The Ngarkat is pretty wild and unexplored country. There is still a lot of diversity in the area from mallee fowls to wedge tailed Eagles and possibly a few other suprises too.

There have long been stories of a Thylacine type creature living in the park and a recent front page newspaper article showed a picture of an unusual Thylacine like creature taken with a motion sensor camera at a water trough in the area. I spent a night around a campfire with the local National Parks & Wildlife dog trapper from the Ngarkat many years ago. He claimed to have trapped an unusual Thylacine type animal. He sent samples including the skull to the State museum, which reported back that the creature was not a dog, but did not match any known species. Its quite possible if a rare top level, predator species was living there that authorities could keep its existance quiet to help protect it.

Local farmers and 4wd tourists have also reported seeing large black puma type cats and there are occasionally some pretty strange kills of adult sheep on properties bordering the national parks in the area. While dingoes and Dingoe crosses are occasionaly shot, the sheep kills are different to dog or dingoe attacks.