According to a conservation foundation, conditions in a wetland where wallabies fled in the 1960s were “almost perfect” for the population to grow to 1,000.
Few of them were able to escape from a neighboring wildlife park, but new assessments of the Ballaugh Curragh and its environs reveal that their numbers have increased.
According to Leigh Morris, chief executive of the Manx Wildlife Trust, the ecosystem is comparable to Tasmania, one of the species’ original habitats.
According to him, this made it possible for the island’s natural population to expand in the northwest before moving to other glens and forests during the previous 60 years.
MANY SCENES In the Ballaugh Curragh, a wooden board walkway crosses a section of accumulated water.
