THe lonely last wallaby of the Peak District

It was feared they had died out. But nine years after the wallabies of the Peak District were thought to have hopped into oblivion, a hiker managed to photograph this one.

However, he may have stumbled on the lone survivor from a colony that used to number at least 60.

Five were released into the wild from a private collection in the 1930s. They found conditions in upland Derbyshire sufficiently to their liking to begin breeding and became something of a tourist attraction.

However, the colony was hard hit by the harsh winter of 1962-63 and never really recovered. By 2000 they were feared to have died out completely.

But rumours that the odd one might remain have finally been confirmed by the pictures taken by walker Andy Burton, 46.

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