The guardians of the desert saving Australia's native animals | Wild Deserts | Australian Story

A young couple are braving danger and isolation in one of the most remote areas of Australia to help turn around the country's extinction crisis.

UNSW-Sydney ecologists Dr Rebecca West and her husband Dr Reece Pedler run the Wild Deserts project in the Sturt National Park — an ambitious 10-year collaboration to re-introduce seven locally extinct animals into safe havens and restore the health of the desert into the bargain.

With Australia's extinction crisis among the worst in the world, re-populating the desert with the animals that once thrived there is a ray of hope in a race against time.

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