Editing Macrotis (section)

== Conservation ==
Bilbies are slowly becoming endangered because of habitat loss and change, and competition with other animals. There is a national recovery plan being developed for saving them. This program includes captive breeding, monitoring populations, and reestablishing bilbies where they once lived. There have been reasonably successful moves to popularise the bilby as a native alternative to the [[Easter Bunny]] by selling [[chocolate]] [[Easter Bilby|Easter Bilbies]] (sometimes with a portion of the profits going to bilby protection and research). Reintroduction efforts have begun, with a successful reintroduction into the Arid Recovery Reserve in [[South Australia]] in 2000,<ref>Moseby K. E. and O'Donnell E. O. (2003) [http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR02012.htm Reintroduction of the greater bilby, Macrotis lagotis (Reid) (Marsupialia: Thylacomyidae), to northern South Australia: survival, ecology and notes on reintroduction protocols] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051112124918/http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR02012.htm |date=12 November 2005 }} Wildlife Research 30, 15–27.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aridrecovery.org.au/greater-bilby|title=Greater Bilby|website=aridrecovery.org.au|access-date=2019-04-23|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423134727/http://www.aridrecovery.org.au/greater-bilby|url-status=live}}</ref> and a reintroduction into [[Currawinya National Park]] in [[Queensland]], where six bilbies were released into a predator-proof enclosure in April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/bilbies-hop-into-their-new-home-just-in-time-for-easter-20190418-p51fbb.html|title=Bilbies hop into their new home just in time for Easter|last=Caldwell|first=Felicity|date=2019-04-18|website=Brisbane Times|language=en|access-date=2019-04-23|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423134726/https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/bilbies-hop-into-their-new-home-just-in-time-for-easter-20190418-p51fbb.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Successful reintroductions have also occurred on the Peron Peninsula in [[Western Australia]] as a part of<ref>{{cite web|title=Project Eden|url=http://www.naturebase.net/content/view/822/824/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831123012/http://www.naturebase.net/content/view/822/824/|archive-date=2007-08-31|access-date=2014-04-22|website=NatureBase|publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation}}</ref> the [[Western Shield]] program, and at other conservation lands, including islands and the [[Australian Wildlife Conservancy]]'s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.awc.org.au |title=Australian Wildlife Conservancy |publisher=Awc.org.au |access-date=2014-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523103010/http://awc.org.au/ |archive-date=23 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Scotia Sanctuary|Scotia]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/scotia-sanctuary.aspx |title=Australian Wildlife Conservancy Scotia Sanctuary |access-date=2 June 2014 |archive-date=30 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530052352/http://australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/scotia-sanctuary.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Yookamurra Sanctuary|Yookamurra Sanctuaries]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/yookamurra-sanctuary.aspx |title=Australian Wildlife Conservancy Yookamurra Sanctuary |access-date=2 June 2014 |archive-date=30 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530065110/http://australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/yookamurra-sanctuary.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> There is a highly successful bilby breeding program at [[Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kanyanawildlife.org.au/ |title=Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (Inc.) |publisher=Kanyanawildlife.org.au |access-date=2014-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629102859/http://www.kanyanawildlife.org.au/ |archive-date=29 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> near [[Perth]], Western Australia.