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The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival

  • Written by Brendan Wintle, Professor Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne
A kangaroo finds refuge in a small patch of vegetation surrounded by a new housing estate.Georgia Garrard, Author provided

It may not look like a pristine expanse of Amazon rainforest or an African savannah, but the patch of bush at the end of the street could be one of the only places on the planet that harbour a particular species of endangered...

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