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Forgotten Fauna Part 21: Thylacine and Devil stories on the mainland – a reminder of Australia’s ecology long before the arrival of the dingo

Posted on 29 Apr 2026 at 09:59h in News, Forgotten Fauna Series, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

Back in Part 16 of the Forgotten Fauna series of blogs, we touched on the story of Australia’s apex marsupial carnivores, which occupied the terrestrial environments of the mainland for most of its recent evolutionary history, until the relatively recent arrival of the dingo. Over...

Forgotten Fauna Part 20: How the fox spread across the Australian continent… and can we train our wildlife to better cope with ferals?

Posted on 30 Oct 2025 at 16:21h in Threatened mainland fauna, Forgotten Fauna Series, News 0 Comments

Two interesting things have popped up since last month’s forgotten fauna instalment about the Woylie, that are worth exploring, as they add some additional interesting colour and context to the ongoing story of our forgotten mainland fauna… The spread of the fox across Australia Firstly,...

Forgotten Fauna Part 19: The Woylie — a case study that can help inform our plans, both inside and outside the predator-proof fence, at Mt Vandyke

Posted on 29 Sep 2025 at 15:56h in News, Forgotten Fauna Series, Threatened mainland fauna 0 Comments

In the article I wrote last year for the forgotten mainland fauna series, we explored the interesting case study of the introduction of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot to offshore islands in Victoria, where — in the absence of foxes — they are co-existing with feral...

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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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, Forgotten Fauna Series, 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...