persisted in this location. with that tiny success, a rescue plan was hatched to secure remaining populations, and within months, the western river refuge was created — almost 400 hectares of habitat protected with a cat exclusion fence that ecologists hope will become a sanctuary for the dunnarts and other species. because of that effort and because of the funding and the resources that have gone into the kangaroo island dunnart, we know more about the dunnart than ever, because of the bushfire, which i guess is a bit of a silver lining. and what we've seen from that is that we have found dunnarts in a lot more locations than we previously have. and it's notjust dunnarts which have survived. this is a possum, a brushtail possum.