Feral cats pose persistent problem for island 'rewild'

Indigenous managers of a Bass Strait island want feral cats eliminated so native species can return. (HANDOUT/WORLD WILDLIFE FUND)

Wombats, wallabies, long-nosed potoroos, white-footed dunnarts and marsupial mice once thrived on lungtalanana in Bass Strait. 

But since colonisation the 82-square-kilometre island off Tasmania's northeast tip has been plagued by pests including feral cats.