Predatory fox Rambo is no more, paving way for locally extinct species to return to Pilliga

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A frustrating four-and-a-half-year battle of hide and seek with one elusive fox called Rambo has finally come to an end within a fenced area safe-haven in north west New South Wales’s Pilliga State Conservation Area.

The team from Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are now able to safely reintroduce six threatened species to the area after being locally extinct for nearly a century.



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