Hairy nose wombat birth to the north increases the number of one of the rarest animals in the world.

The population of one of the rarest animal species in the world, the northern hairy wombat, has been driven by the arrival of a joey, the first recorded in Queensland in five years. The joey has emerged from his mother's bag at the Richard Underwood Nature Shelter in southwest Queensland for the delight of staff and landowners.

The joey was shy at first, preferring to stay close to his mother, but he is expected to be much more active now that he has come out of the bag, Environment Minister Steven Miles. There are only about 250 of the marsupials in the wild. The Richard Underwood Nature Refuge Colony was established in 2009 and is the second population colony of Red-haired Wombat in central Queensland. Prior to this, the hairy nose wombat population was only 138 in nature in the colony of Epping Forest National Park.

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