{"id":289756,"date":"2025-11-17T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:39:07","slug":"australian-bandicoot-returns-to-mainland-after-150-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289756\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian bandicoot returns to mainland after 150 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a century after one of Australia&#8217;s smallest marsupials became extinct on the mainland due to cats and foxes, the western barred bandicoot has made a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as the Shark Bay bandicoot, it currently lives in the wild on two small islands off Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Now the endangered species has been re-introduced to the predator-free Mallee Cliffs National Park in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Dr John Kanowski, Chief Scientist Officer Australian Wildlife ConservancyProducer: Eddy Diamond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost a century after one of Australia&#8217;s smallest marsupials became extinct on the mainland due to cats and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[29716,64,63,165546,2929,166917,15031,128,338],"class_list":["post-289756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-abc-radio-national-breakfast","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bandicoot","tag-conservation","tag-feral-pest","tag-national-parks","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}