What’s the overall aim of Arid Recovery?
To facilitate the restoration of arid zone ecosystems through on-ground works, applied research, and industry, community and government partnerships. At the moment, the reserve is 82 square kilometres and ferals have been excluded from about 60 square kilometres of that. Within this area, native vegetation and animals have made a comeback and four locally extinct mammals have been successfully reintroduced. We are working to restore the arid zone ecosystem to the way it was prior to European settlement. The project started in 1997 by building up a fence, removing all the feral animals within that enclosure and using it to breed native species which have become locally extinct.
