It's National Bilby Day! Behind the scenes at Taronga Western Plains Zoo is the Taronga Sanctuary, a 110-hectare feral predator-proof area that's home to a number of our conservation programs, including the iconic Greater Bilby. Bilbies were once found across 70% of mainland Australia, but today they’re only found in fragmented populations in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and south-western Queensland, and they're sadly presumed extinct in NSW. The Greater Bilby is one of Taronga’s L

A look behind-the-scenes at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. The Greater Bilby is a nocturnal species therefore a lot of the hands-on work involved with them happens at night. Zoo Keepers along with UNSW PHD student, Kate Cornelsen, start their night by setting traps around 7:30pm in the 110ha sanctuary and then returning around 9:30pm to start work. The team will catch up one Bilby at a time and then weigh, check the pouch if it’s a female for any joeys and then change over the tracking devices on t