News articles
Meet boguls, the small native bush rat returning to the North Shore. 4 March 2026. The North Shore Lorikeet.
Rewilding restores a native species to Allenby Park. 3 March 2026. Northern Beaches Council.
Australian bush rats reintroduced to Sydney’s parks with help of scented towels. 28 Feburary 2026. ABC News.
‘Guerrilla rewilding’ aims for DIY conservation – but it may do more harm than good. 18 June 2025. The Conversation.
Urban rewilding has brought back beavers, hornbills and platypuses to city parks – and that’s just the start. 26 May 2025. The Conversation.
Podcasts
How a rat’s smelly towel might be key to rewilding. 27 February 2026. What the Duck?!, ABC Radio National.
Urban Rewilding, with Patt Finnerty. 17 June 2025. BioScience Talks.
Rewilding our cities. 8 June 2025. Sunday Extra, ABC Radio National.
How ‘urban rewilding’ is helping endangered species. 30 May 2025. Weekend Evenings.
Self Improvement Wednesday: Urban rewilding. 18 September 2025. Sydney Drive, ABC Radio Sydney.
Research papers
Boer-Cueva, M., Cairncross, R., Crowther, M.S., Finnerty, P.B., Raña, A.F., Banks, P.B. and Newsome, T.M., 2025. Life in the big smoke: terrestrial vertebrate assemblages and their drivers along an urbanisation gradient in Sydney, Australia. Wildlife Research, 52(2).
Finnerty, P.B., Carthey, A.J., Banks, P.B., Brewster, R., Grueber, C.E., Houston, D., Martin, J.M., McManus, P., Roncolato, F., van Eeden, L.M. and Wauchope, M., 2025. Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline. BioScience, p.biaf062.
Wauchope, M., Finnerty, P.B., Pierson, J.C., Banks, P.B., Carthey, A.J. and Newsome, T.M., 2025. Who’s been lost from the landscape? Identifying missing terrestrial fauna to inform urban rewilding. Pacific Conservation Biology, 31(3).
Brewster, R., Jameson, T., Roncolato, F., Crowther, M.S., Finnerty, P.B. and Newsome, T.M., 2024. Islands in the sky–could complex topography help us rewild beyond the fence?. Pacific Conservation Biology, 30(5).
Conference presentations
Mendel, B.M. 2025. Multispecies prioritisation for conservation actions: Evaluating urban rewilding potential of 38 Australian mammal species. Australasian Wildlife Management Society conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2-4 December.
Wauchope, M. 2025. Selecting species for urban rewilding. Australasian Wildlife Management Society conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2-4 December.
Wauchope, M. 2025. Urban rewilding northern Sydney: Selecting urban rewilding candidates. International Congress for Conservation Biology, Brisbane, Australia, 15-19 June.
Wauchope, M. 2024. Urban rewilding northern Sydney: Selecting urban rewilding candidates. Ecological Society of Australia conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 December.
Conference posters
Bragato, P. 2026. Using high resolution data to assess reintroduction success of a threatened mesopredator. Predator-Prey Interactions GRC, Lucca, Italy, 25-30 January.
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