Museum Australia has announced the finalists for their 2018 Eureka Prizes, with RCAAE Deputy Director Ian Mansergh and member Dean Heinze part of the Burramys Genetic Rescue Team, who are one of three finalists for the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

The team, a collaboration between La Trobe University, Melbourne University, UNSW and Mt Buller Resort, prevented the local extinction of an isolated Burramys population through the introduction of male Burramys from another population, thereby increasing genetic diversity and fitness.

See the short video below explaining their research.

The scientific publication of this research can be found in Nature Communications.