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 the...
As a follow-up to our most recent Eastern Quoll Hub update in the January newsletter, it was great to have a chat with ABC's Gavin McGrath on his Regional Victoria Saturday Breakfast program. If you'd like to catch up on our wide-ranging discussion about the...
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...
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...
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...
