Tuesday 29 November 2022 03:48 AM Endangered western quolls released into Australian bush to save the species ... trends now
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When Rachael Schildkraut deliberately abandoned eight teenagers in a remote patch of bush, she was overcome with happiness.
There was some anxiety, too, about leaving them to fend for themselves.
But with any luck the endangered western quolls, bred at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, will be the start of something big.
Western Plains Taronga Zoo has released eight young quolls (pictured) into the wild in a hope to save the species from extinction
Western Plains Taronga Zoo program is hoping to save the western quoll from extinction (zoo workers pictured arriving with the eight quolls)
The eight young marsupials, and some of their parents, were released in South Australia's Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park over
