MALLEE Cliffs National Park has become home to the iconic bilby for the first time in 100 years as part of a historic program hoped to boost the world population of the species by more than 10 per cent.

The NSW Government and Australian Wildlife Conservancy have spent three years preparing a 9570 hectare enclosure for bilbies and nine other native animals at Mallee Cliffs, 30km east of Mildura o