Parma Wallaby

The Parma wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct.

In 1965 workers on Kawau Island attempting to control a plague of introduced tammar wallabies were astonished to discover that some of the pests were not tammar wallabies at all, but a miraculously surviving population of.. more