‘We saved a species’:  89-year-old creates wallaby haven in backyard - video Dailymotion

Conservationist and philanthropist Peter Pigott describes the major operation to relocate a population of endangered parma wallabies. Video via AAP

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00:00I've done something that no one else has done before and that is actually contributed to

00:06the saving of a species that everyone, all the scientists thought was going to be extinct.

00:14The palma was not extinct, it was available in New Zealand, it had been taken there.

00:21It bred up naturally in the forests of New Zealand.

00:25And I bought it back and bred and given away 400 animals.

00:31I've always had the feeling, all of us who had the privilege of being born in Australia

00:37or arrived here and became an Australian citizen, to leave the country a little better than

00:45when we found it, when we came here.