Indigenous rangers will use sensor cameras to search for one of Western Australia's rarest and most elusive marsupials - the spectacled hare-wallaby.
The surveillance project in unsurveyed areas of the Kimberley will be possible thanks to a Lotterywest grant for $2.2 million Environment Minister Stephen Dawson presented today while visiting a spectacled hare-wallaby field site near Broome.
In addition to helping WWF-Australia and partners to reduce the threats on the spectacled hare-wallaby, the grant will also help similar work with five other culturally significant species - golden bandicoot, Gouldian finch, nabarlek, northern quoll and black-footed rock-wallaby (wiliji).