Cute marsupial went missing from Australian wildlife sanctuary for 80 years – but thanks to a well-placed trail camera, we know it’s back

Screen from camera trap footage showing northern quoll in a rocky area with trees .

An endangered marsupial that went missing from an Australian wildlife sanctuary for 80 years has suddenly popped up again on a trail camera.

The reserve, jointly owned by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) and The Tony & Lisette Lewis Foundation, announced in January that it had photographed a northern quoll on the 164,850 hectares of land, despite ecologists concluding that the squirrel-like mammals had abandoned the plains.