Hopes rewilding critically endangered brush-tailed bettongs will help them bounce back

Dozens of the ‘ecosystem engineers’ have been caught in Western Australia and flown to their new habitat in

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As in-flight meals go, sweet potato and mushroom might not be everyone’s first choice.

But it was the perfect snack for the 73 critically endangered brush-tailed bettongs as they were flown 2,000kms to a new home on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.