Wallabies of several species have been introduced to other parts of the world, and there are a number of successfully breeding introduced populations, including: •
Kawau Island in New Zealand is home to large numbers of
tammar,
parma,
swamp and
brush-tailed rock-wallabies from introductions made around 1870. They are considered pests on the island, but a programme to translocate them to Australia has met with only limited success. • The
Lake Tarawera area of New Zealand has a large tammar wallaby population. • The
South Canterbury district of New Zealand has a large population of
red-necked wallabies. • On the
Isle of Man in the
Ballaugh Curraghs area, there is a population of ared-necked wallabies, descended from a pair that escaped from the nearby
Curraghs Wildlife Park in 1970. Their numbers have increased to be in excess of 1000 animals. •
Hawaii has a small non-native population of wallabies in the upper regions of Kalihi Valley on the island of
Oahu. arising from an escape of zoo specimens of the brush-tailed rock-wallaby in 1916. • In the
Peak District of England, a population was established around 1940 by five escapees from a local zoo: as of September 2017 sightings were still being made in the area. At its peak in 1975, the population numbered around 60 individuals. • The island of
Inchconnachan in
Loch Lomond, Scotland, has a population of around 28 red-necked wallabies introduced by Lady Colquhoun in the 1920s. Eradication to protect the native
capercaillie has been proposed. • There is a small population on
Lambay Island off the eastern coast of Ireland. Initially introduced in the 1950s and 1960s, more were introduced in the 1980s after a sudden population explosion at
Dublin Zoo. • Populations in the United Kingdom that, for some periods, bred successfully included one near
Teignmouth, Devon; in the
Ashdown Forest.in East Sussex;
Cornwall; and on the islands of
Bute and
Lundy. • In France, in the southern part of the
Forest of Rambouillet, about west of Paris, there is a wild group of around 30 red-necked wallabies. This population has been present since the 1970s, when some individuals escaped from the zoological park of
Émancé after a storm. ==Species==