Threatened mainland fauna

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 3 – The event that changes everything – foxes establish in the region

Posted at 23 Jul 2016 at 03:38h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by Mark Bachmann

2 Likes

Share

Not long after 1893, when the stories shared in Part 1 of this series were recorded, the fox became seriously entrenched in the region and the environment started to undergo a significant transformation. But first, what can the records tell us about this period, and how that transformation...

Read More

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 2 – Where have the dingoes gone?

Posted at 12 Jul 2016 at 14:49h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by Mark Bachmann

2 Likes

Share

In Part 1 of this series, we got a sense of what the wildlife was like in the region in the 1890s, just a short time before the arrival of foxes. But where was the Dingo? - Since its recent arrival in Australia (only about 4000...

Read More

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 1 – It’s 1893 and time to go hunting at Strathdownie

Posted at 28 Jun 2016 at 11:47h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by Mark Bachmann

3 Likes

Share

A few recent events and discussions have got me thinking about how little today we think about what our ground-dwelling mammalian forest fauna was really like across south-eastern Australia; both before the arrival of Europeans (including, long before that, dingoes arriving in Australia), and then after...

Read More