Posted Sun at 5:43am
After a series of catastrophic
wildfires in 2014, the Mallee emu wren became extinct in South Australia, but
the birds are making a comeback in the state with the help of
environmentalists.
When the tiny bird — weighing
only as much as a 10 cent piece — could no longer be found in SA, there were
still numbers that existed in parts of Victoria's north-west, but they were
listed as endangered.
In one of the three national
parks where they remained, Victoria's Wyperfeld National Park, their numbers
were only in the hundreds.
Researchers were concerned a
severe bushfire season would threaten the remaining population.
Numerous organisations in South
Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, together with the support of the South
Australian Government, devised a breeding program over four years to boost the
birds' numbers.
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