A busy period of translocations over May and June saw marsupials airlifted from sites around the country, as progress continues on one of Australia's most significant rewilding projects. After the latest releases, the tracks of Bilbies and Burrowing Bettongs have reappeared on the sand dunes at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, marking a major milestone in the restoration of Central Australia's biodiversity. The burrowers are back!

Helen Crisp is AWC's Regional Ecologist for Central and South Australia, she oversees the complex logistics of moving animals around the country for these translocations. Helen also lives alongside Bettongs and Bilbies at Yookamurra in South Australia, and will join me for a conversation about conserving these threatened species. Both are important diggers – ecosystem engineers which turn over literally tonnes of soil through their endless foraging and burrowing.

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