Rangers in the Kuitpo Forest, in Kangarilla, South Australia have spotted a Southern Brown Bandicoot for the first time in nearly 4 decades.
The small marsupial grows to roughly 30 centimetres, and is found on southern fringes of Australia’s coastline where their populations have dwindled due to deforestation and growth in predator numbers.
Rangers in the area now plan to put sensor cameras in other areas of remnant vegetation in the nearby Mount Lofty Ranges forest reserves as they hope to gain a better understanding of the bandicoots' distribution.