Australia has returned to the continent of lynx cats for 50 years

For the first time after 50 years disappearing from the Australian continent, Oriental pocket cats were born here, giving hope to the continent's efforts to restore the marsupial community.

Oriental pocket cats mostly eat insects and have adult cat size.

This animal disappeared from the Australian continent in the 1960s but still has a small part of the island in Tasmania.

In March, experts moved 20 Oriental bag cats from the island to Booderee National Park, south of Sydney, to test the rebuilding of the cat community here.

Oriental pocket cat.(Source: news.com.au).

This is the first time an extinct insectivore on the Australian mainland has been brought back to the wild.

Booderee National Park's Resource Manager, Nick Dexter, said the experts had identified kittens in the pockets of three mother-cat cats.

This figure is not significant compared to the goal of restoring the Oriental kittens in mainland Australia, but up to 30% of the offspring in the first phase of the project is a very good signal. joyful.

Oriental pocket cats have lived in mainland Australia for thousands of years.

However, a large number of this species was destroyed in the early 1900s due to a mysterious epidemic.

Besides the threat from Australian foxes. The last time the Oriental bag cat appeared popular in mainland Australia was in the 1960s in the Sydney area.