AWC in Conversation with Georgie Anderson: Reintroducing the Western Quoll to Mt Gibson
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- With white spots and sharp teeth, quolls are the feisty marsupial predators of the Australian bush. Before foxes decimated their populations, the Western Quoll (or Chuditch) was the most widespread marsupial carnivore, hunting across nearly 70% of the continent.
Now, the Chuditch is making a comeback. It is one of ten species that’s been reintroduced to Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, AWC’s record-setting rewilding project in the West Australian Wheatbelt. A colossal effort is being put into sustained feral animal control and the quolls are being monitored from above with radio tracking drones.
Georgie Anderson is AWC's Senior Field Ecologist leading the translocation program at Mt Gibson Sanctuary. She joins us for an update after a third release of Chuditch this month.
It looks like you may be winning the race at MtGibson. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, that's the plan! 💚💚
Thank you so much for sharing with us and for your amazing work AWC and all staff involved ❤
The footage of the Perenti in the flower beds is absolutely stunning, it would be amazing if Sir David Attenborough could do a documentary using your footage filmed on your conservation sites 😊 🎥 🍿 🦎 🌸
Thank you for caring about our work! Sir David is lovely, that would be the dream! 💚
Great work! I’d love to know if the Taronga team do any conditioning work to prepare the quolls for life in the wild or if that’s deemed necessary.
Martin Copley will be looking down with a big smile on his face!
Thank you for such a lovely comment!
Mt Gibson is a great project and all involved should be congratulated. However for the AWC to say that introduction of 8 species to one site is one of the most successful in the world shows a lack of what goes on in other countries. Australia is way behind many countries and is only just getting started, admittedly due to the hard of organisations like AWC.