In and around the Arid Recovery Reserve in northern South Australia, ten reintroduction attempts were conducted between 1998 and 2008. A fenced reserve (cats, foxes and rabbits had been eradicated) five locally-extinct mammal species and one reptile species were reintroduced. The reintroduction of Macrotis lagotis were successful based on criteria that included continued survival after eight years, increased distribution across the large Reserve and recovery after a drought event. Outside the Reserve, where cats and foxes were present although poison baiting programs were in place, reintroduction attempts of the greater bilby were unsuccessful. The high death rate of the bilby was credited to predation from cats and foxes (Moseby et al. 2011).
