Bilbies, Numbats, Woylies - Who is Protecting Australia's Wilderness? (20/35)

Bilbies, Numbats, Woylies - Who is Protecting Australia's Wilderness? (20/35)

300 years ago Australia's fauna looked very different: marsupials, from mouse-sized species up to the famous giant kangaroos played a role which can hardly be imagined nowadays. They were exterminated primarily by the foxes and cats brought to the country by the first foreign sea-farers. In some protected areas in the south of Australia, attempts are now being made to "go back to nature". Numbats, woylies, potoroos, boodies, bilbies and all the rest of them - not to forget the legendary duck-billed platapus - have been restored, as it were, to their old habitats. And thus, in recent years, "Old Australia" has reemerged in one part of the country.