The Taronga Foundation has raised 80 per cent of its $40 million target and is looking for more donors to chip in to save native wildlife.
Mr Kerr said he joined Taronga Conservation Society 23 years ago to combine his business and science skills with conservation. Part of the job is also reeling in donors.
The work was critical, Mr Kerr said, with the world in the grip of a “silent mass extinction event” that had been occurring for the last decade or so. “We need to remind ourselves of that. We can’t afford Black Summer bushfires like that every decade.”Greater bilbies have been extinct in NSW for the past 100 years, but the zoo began reintroducing them in 2019.“We built up robust numbers, put them into our sanctuary out at the Western Plains Zoo ... and that’s now an engine room for rewilding in Australia.”
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