ABCTV Catalyst () - Desert Diggers

The Greater Stick-nest Rat once ranged across the Nullarbor Plain. Now it survives only on a handful of islands, one of them Reevesby Island. Ecologist Dr Joss Bentley from Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) has arrived to organise a mass escape. Once 40 Stick-nest Rats are safely packed for transport, she’s got less than 20 hours to deliver them to their new home -- a 4,000 hectare fenced ’paddock’, free from feral cats, foxes and predators, in the red sand desert country called ’Scotia’ owned by AWC.