{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"wallabies in northumberland???","html":"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/cbbcnews\/hi\/newsid_8070000\/newsid_8078900\/8078979.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a>, June 02 2009\r\n<blockquote>Hopper, who's two and a half, made a bid for freedom by digging under a fence and making a hop for it towards a local forest.\r\n\r\nPolice believe the wallaby is still in the area and believed to be hiding in the Kielder Forest.<\/blockquote>\r\nIf you see him, kindly call the police on <strong>03456 043 043<\/strong>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\r\n\r\nIn 2007, 3 wallabies escaped from a caravan park in Belford.\r\n\r\n...and another one, who escaped from a petting zoo near Cornwall in 20o7 found a female mate in the wild, who was spotted with her joey in May 2009 on a lawn:\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_964\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"169\" caption=\"photo Brian Nash\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-964\" title=\"955337\" src=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/955337.jpg\" alt=\"photo Brian Nash\" width=\"169\" height=\"182\" \/>[\/caption]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\r\n\r\nFor the past 60 years, there has been a clatch of 60 wild wallabies living on the island of Inchconnachan, in Loch Lomond, Scotland - they're now facing forced extermination in order to save other more native wildlife on the island with whom\u00a0 food resources are shared.\r\n\r\nIain Sheves of Luss Estates, the island management group, said\r\n<blockquote>\"We understand that some people view wallabies as nice and good fun but we would hope people realise that native wildlife must be paramount.\"<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 June 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/2009\/06\/04\/scotland-s-only-wallabies-face-extermination-86908-21413729\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_970\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"454\" caption=\"Inchconnachan Wallaby\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-970\" title=\"ll_mar_05\" src=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ll_mar_05.jpg\" alt=\"Inchconnachan Wallaby\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" \/>[\/caption]","type":"rich"}