A recent encounter with a northern quoll in the Kimberleys – a reminder of our own forgotten fauna…

Posted on 27 Nov 2018 at 21:59h in News 0 Comments

I spied this northern quoll at Bell Gorge on a recent trip along the Gibb River Road in the Kimberleys, WA. Amazingly it was highly active in broad daylight. Bell Gorge is a popular swimming spot for tourists and it seems this quoll has...

Mainland forgotten fauna: Part 9 – Quolls, Curlews, Bandicoots and exploring different trajectories of decline…

Posted on 15 Aug 2018 at 00:37h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 3 Comments

Last week a couple of things happened that got me thinking again about our forgotten mainland fauna – so let’s pick up where we left off last time in Part 8, when we talked about ‘Shifting Baselines‘ and how our perception of the environment through...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 8 – The concept of “Shifting Baselines” helps explain why we have forgotten our mainland fauna

Posted on 19 Jan 2018 at 00:10h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 3 Comments

Although it has been a little while since we talked about our mainland forgotten fauna on the blogs, a valuable discussion last week with a couple of staff at the Glenelg Hopkins CMA has prompted me to kick this discussion off again. After our meeting,...

Revisiting the Forgotten Fauna of Fleurieu Swamps near Mt Compass – do you have any old accounts or photos to share?

Posted on 15 Mar 2017 at 12:14h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, News 0 Comments

The December blog post about the forgotten fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula stimulated some great feedback from some of our newsletter subscribers with an interest in ecological change and the value of historical accounts for aiding our modern understanding of the environment. For example, Graham Carpenter kindly...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 7 – Bilbies, Malleefowl and other Forgotten Fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula

Posted on 06 Dec 2016 at 12:14h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 1 Comment

You never quite know what you are going to come across when digging through old references, and in working through some historical material for the Tookayerta Catchment project I came across a real jem. In fact, although it has been a while since the last...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 6 – The demise of our forgotten fauna… and what do the Fox and Cane Toad have in common?

Posted on 14 Sep 2016 at 00:02h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 2 Comments

The demise of many of the medium sized (‘critical weight range’) small mammals across south-eastern Australia that followed the concurrent suppression or eradication of dingoes and the arrival of foxes – combined of course with the clearance, development and intensive grazing of land – was for the most part swift and...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 5 – So, just how unique is Tasmania’s wildlife?

Posted on 22 Aug 2016 at 02:08h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 4 Comments

I’ve been lucky enough to head across Bass Straight to visit Tasmania a few times over the past 15 years and, as someone who has surveyed small mammals in the wild on the mainland since the mid-90s, the first thing that I notice is… you guessed it...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 4 – Remembering the last Dingo at Mt Richmond… and, why did the fox run rampant?

Posted on 06 Aug 2016 at 19:35h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 2 Comments

We’ve now reached a point in this series where the stories told so far intertwine. The undeniable reality is that, without realising it, the early settlers had paved the way for the establishment and explosion of the fox population – by deliberately persecuting, suppressing and, successfully eradicating from many districts, the...

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

Posted on 23 Jul 2016 at 03:38h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 1 Comment

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...

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

Posted on 12 Jul 2016 at 14:49h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 3 Comments

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...

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