Clarke added, "The Northern hairy-nosed wombat has come perilously close to extinction; in the 1980s the numbers got as low as 35 individuals. For many species there would be no coming back from ...

Ecologists in Australia were thrilled to capture rare footage of a critically endangered juvenile Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat in in south-west Queensland. Staten Island mother and wanted son ...

The first, from early June, showed a juvenile northern hairy-nosed wombat, proving that the reserve’s population was successfully rearing young that were progressing to foraging independently.

Northern hairy-nosed wombats are the largest of three Australian wombat species. They have a broad nose, pointy ears, soft grey fur and black eye patches, and can weigh up to 30 kg (66 lb).

The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of three wombat species, all found in Australia. The others are the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) and the Southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons).

The northern hairy-nosed wombat species almost became extinct in the 1980s when numbers plummeted to 30 at the Epping Forest National Park (Scientific), about 400 kilometres south-west of Mackay.

Ecologists in Australia are very excited to see what they say is “rare footage” of a juvenile Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat waddling around a nature refuge in Queensland.

Good news stories about the environment are sometimes hard to find. Enter Australia’s northern hairy-nosed wombat, which has stepped back from the edge of extinction. Wombats are being relocated to ...

A rare baby northern hairy-nosed wombat - known as a joey - is shown with its mother at a refuge in Australia. There are only around 250 members of the species left and they all live at two ...

The Northern hairy-nosed wombat is known as the largest species and is nearing extinction, while the Southern hairy-nosed wombat can weigh up to 68 pounds. Bare-nosed wombats are known as the ...

To keep the wombat from going the way of the dodo, environmental officials gathered at Epping in late 2007 to brainstorm a radical shift in strategy: they would abandon business as usual by ...