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Nyibol Gatluak

Wildlife corridor offers path for resurgent brushtails

Brushtail possums have been spotted more than 40km from where they were reintroduced in WA. (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY)

A brushtail possum once locally extinct in a remote pocket of Western Australia has now branched out into new territory.

For more than 80 years, brushtail possums were gone from an area of WA's northern wheatbelt until conservationists reintroduced 49 of the marsupials to the Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in 2021.

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