Isle of Man wild wallaby numbers grow from a few wildlife park escapees to 1,000 over six decades.
Conditions in a Manx marshland wallabies escaped to in the 1960s proved "almost perfect" for an expansion in the population to 1,000, a conservation charity has said.of the Ballaugh Curragh and its surrounding areas show numbers have swelled.
That allowed the wild population to grow in the north-west of the island, before migrating to other glens and forests over the past six decades, he said.Mr Morris said while people would expect marsupials normally associated with Australian forests to prefer a warmer climate, wallabies were also "quite happy in Tasmania, where it rains a lot and is quite chilly in the winter".
The report's authors said the animals could now also be found in Ramsey Forest and on the western side of Ballaugh Glen. The species has no natural predators on the island and there have been no attempts by the authorities to control the population over the past 60 years.
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