Decades of searching and a chance discovery: why finding Leadbeater’s possum in NSW is such big news

By David Lindenmayer, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Darcy Watchorn, Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University
Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University

For decades, researchers have sought proof this critically endangered possum existed in New South Wales. Now it’s arrived by sheer chance

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