{"id":3544,"date":"2022-07-03T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:13:04","slug":"manage-the-metapopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/manage-the-metapopulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage the Metapopulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the bilby genome has been mapped, it is being used to manage the bilby metapopulation in zoos, fenced sanctuaries and islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy selecting individuals for translocation and release we maximise their genetic diversity, thus improving the population\u2019s ability to adapt to a changing world.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/news-opinion\/news\/2024\/07\/01\/australia-greater-bilby-genome-sequenced-marsupial-conservation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Carolyn Hogg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZYA3RzxKoI?si=xfcOTHelk4w4hM2w\" width=\"100%\" height=\"555\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Queensland government has gifted the Northern Territory government with 35 endangered bilbies bred at Currawinya National Park by Save the Bilby Fund, south of Cunnamulla. It\u2019s one of the largest-ever translocations of bilbies \u2013 Australia\u2019s last surviving arid bandicoot species. Their new home will be Newhaven Reserve, west of Alice Springs \u2013 the world\u2019s largest fenced area for threatened species. Over two days the bilbies are trapped in Currawinya, checked by vets and then flown to Hungerford (population 11!) to begin their safe new lives in the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Danielle Lancaster and Craig Fitzsimmons. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the bilby genome has been mapped, it is being used to manage the bilby metapopulation in zoos, fenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilby-research","category-news","category-our-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebilbyfund.org.au\/26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}