Native wombats and invasive rabbits are important to Australian ecosystems, but how do you work out where they live? That’s ...

Marie Wynan and her husband Ray have been patrolling the forest and marking wombat burrows Forestry Corporation of NSW are burying wombats to death during logging Over 150 burrows were marked but ...

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To help the wombats, the volunteers rely on two forms of treatment: direct dosage and a self-built flap system. Melina Budden again: “We basically put this in the entry to their burrow ...

And so I screamed and I ran back to Dad and the wombat, you know, ran the opposite way, straight down its burrow. I now know that that wombat had mange. But I think that was the moment that really ...