Forgotten Fauna Part 18: What does the bandicoot recovery story on Victoria’s offshore islands tell us about the differential impacts of introduced predators?

Posted on 28 Mar 2024 at 21:44h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

I recently came across this interesting article in the Conversation, which looks at the story of the recovery of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot on three of Victoria’s offshore islands – French, Phillip and Churchill Island – and also some of the wider issues facing the...

Forgotten Fauna Part 17: Quoll discovery near Beachport a rare but welcome reminder of our missing wildlife

Posted on 30 Oct 2023 at 11:26h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

In a flurry of activity late last month, word spread fast of news of a Spotted-tailed Quoll being captured in what seemed like the most unlikely of places – a rural property situated on the South East coast of South Australia, between Beachport and Southend....

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 16: A more complete story of the Thylacine and placing our missing apex predators on the mainland into context

Posted on 19 Sep 2023 at 22:08h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

It has been a while since I wrote an instalment for our blog series on forgotten fauna, but a number of things I have come across lately got me thinking again about this topic, so let’s dive back in again! Before I share those interesting...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 15: Eastern quoll insights from the mainland long ago

Posted on 27 Feb 2023 at 14:02h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

It has been a while since our last foray into the stories of forgotten mainland fauna (see part 14 here), but this month we are back with more interesting insights into the eastern quoll (or native cat as it was then known) on the mainland...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 14: A fresh reminder of Eastern Quoll abundance in south-west Victoria in the 1800s

Posted on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:00h in Threatened mainland fauna, News 0 Comments

Further to the previous edition of “Forgotten Fauna”, a fantastic paper by Rob Wallis (see below this blog) was recently published in the Victorian Naturalist, and provides some great insights by sharing a number of early recorded observations of eastern quolls in western Victoria. As...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 13: An amazing insight into the secret life of the Eastern Quoll

Posted on 27 Feb 2021 at 20:07h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 2 Comments

We’ve been exploring the issue of forgotten fauna on the Australian mainland for some time, and thanks to a recent documentary on the ABC, we can now get an incredibly intimate understanding of what life is like for one of these long-forgotten, now extinct mainland...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 12: Tasmanian research provides new clues on what went wrong on the mainland… and what we could do next

Posted on 19 Mar 2020 at 18:09h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 1 Comment

It has been a little while since the last Mainland Forgotten Fauna instalment – Part 11 – where we looked back at the time when the stony rises of western Victoria were teeming with quolls. This was also an era when western Victoria was the hub...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 11 – Let’s revisit a time when the stony rises of western Victoria were teeming with eastern quolls

Posted on 31 Oct 2019 at 11:51h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 4 Comments

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to participate in a DELWP-hosted discussion about the future of quolls in Victoria. The discussion was prompted by several Indigenous groups around the state who are concerned about the loss of quoll species – and our native predators...

Still out and about … Mark talking wetlands in Winton, and forgotten fauna in Newham

Posted on 29 Aug 2019 at 14:21h in News, Threatened mainland fauna, Wetland Restoration 2 Comments

After taking a bit of much needed time to catch up on a number of things away from NGT, I’ll finally be properly back on deck in a couple of weeks, just in time to see our wetlands bursting into life this spring! During my...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna Part 10: let’s talk about rewilding agricultural landscapes, plus deciphering an old account from 1844

Posted on 04 Feb 2019 at 14:37h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

The topic of our missing mainland fauna is never far from my thoughts, and a few things have happened recently that have really brought it back into focus. But before I go through those things, let’s recap a couple ideas from recent blogs that we’ll...

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