Platypus in the River Torrens?! Yes, you heard correctly. Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) were likely found there in the past. In fact there were records from the early 1800s of Platypus in the River Torrens/Karrawirra Pari. However, Platypus have been effectively extinct in mainland SA since...
National Threatened Species Day, on the 7th of September each year, marks the day in 1936 when the last known Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died in captivity. Few extinction events are marked so specifically, most species slip into extinction quietly and without acknowledgment, but the Tasmanian...
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...
Australian Painted Snipe at Lake Hawdon. Photo: Abel Zevenboom During Nature Glenelg Trust’s annual Wetland Bird Survey of Lake Hawdon North in November the weather was wonderful, the abundance of birds plentiful and the lake had far-reaching inundated mudflats. While teams were split up, most of...
Over the past couple of months of the the NGT newsletter, the Spotted-tailed Quoll has been in the spotlight. Firstly in October, we took a closer look at the recent quoll capture near Beachport, and then last month, we followed that up with some more...
A couple of years ago (back in Part 13 of our Forgotten Fauna series) I shared a link to a fantastic documentary on the Eastern Quoll, filmed in Tasmania by Simon Plowright. Due to the ABC's licensing arrangements for the program, the link didn't remain...
Last month's article about the recent quoll capture near Beachport triggered a couple of fascinating follow-up stories that are definitely worth sharing!First of all, the story of the Spotted-tailed Quoll captured at Cobdogla, near Barmera, on the River Murray in SA in 1959, brought back...
The recaptured Spotted-tailed Quoll. Photo by Frank Pao-Ling Tsai. 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...
In early September 2023, fifteen spiny crayfish species were listed as threatened under Australia’s federal law for the environment (Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) 1999); NGT’s Maiko Lutz and Nick Whiterod (now with the Goyder Institute’s CLLMM Research Centre) coordinated the conservation...
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 links...
