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Long-nosed Potoroos return to Booderee National Park

A native mammal has been re-introduced into a National Park on the South Coast, in a bid to boost their numbers.

Parks Australia released several Long-nosed Potoroos into the Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay on Wednesday night.

The ground-dwelling creature once flourished in the park but was killed off by wild dogs and foxes.

Dr Nick Dexter from Parks Australia says the mammals were also considered pests by humans, who paid bounties to have them killed.

Mr Dexter says now the threat to their survival has been controlled, he's confident their numbers will start to grow.

"We've had an expert from NSW National Park, who's spent a large part of his life working on Potoroos come down and assess habitat quality at Booderee, and the sites that he ticked as excellent we've chose them to release the animals."

"In the long term, we're hoping to see an expanding population," he said.

"We're hoping to see lots of mother potoroos with pouch-young and young at foot, rather in the same manner that their big cousins, Kangaroos, will have a pouch young and another one hopping around."