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The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Fri 15 May, 2015 5:47 pm

40 of them to be reintroduced soon.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... MP=soc_567

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Fri 15 May, 2015 8:56 pm

GPSGuided wrote:40 of them to be reintroduced soon.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... MP=soc_567


That has got to be fantastic news :) I love to observe our Quolls down here in Tassie even the one that was a PITA at Wadleys Hut :lol:

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Fri 15 May, 2015 9:24 pm

Hope it takes. Wonder how the ones in the Flinders Ranges are doing.

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Fri 15 May, 2015 10:20 pm

Fingers crossed!

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Mon 18 May, 2015 9:49 am

I hope it works, BUT.... it may be an expensive way to feed the actual 'top predator' of the area! This park has the highest population density of mammal eating diamond pythons known, indeed 12 have been observed in one night at one popular campsite (no doubt preying on the bush rats, bandicoots and possums habitualised to humans and their scraps).

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Mon 18 May, 2015 10:27 am

Quoll numbers have drastically reduced in areas I visit (suspect cats), it may not be long before they need to be re-introduced to their current domain.

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Tue 19 May, 2015 10:30 am

north-north-west wrote:Hope it takes. Wonder how the ones in the Flinders Ranges are doing.


Doing reasonably well, according to several reports. That mob are Western Quolls.

For example: http://fame.org.au/news_resources/news/view/the-western-quoll-has-begun-its-journey-home

But I heard some comments last week on ABC radio on the way back from Flinders/Gammon noting that that feral cats are also doing well.

Re: The Eastern Quolls are coming back...

Sat 23 May, 2015 12:32 am

Last time i saw an eastern quoll i was down at Pelian Hut and it ran up and around our tent! it was such an amazing moment haha and its great news that they're coming back :)
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