Category Archives: mammals

AWC – Wildlife Matters Spring 2015

Australia, AWC, birds, desert, lakes, Landscape, mammals, marsupials, Mornington, Newhaven, reptiles, Wildlife

In this issue:

  • Historic partnership in the Pilliga forest and at Mallee Clfifs
  • Restoring the lost mammals of central Australia at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary: the planet’s largest feral cat eradication project
  • Historic return of endangered Woylies to Mt Gibson
  • Securing the Northern Quoll
  • Piccaninny Plains bird surveys to unlock wet season secrets of Cape York
  • Ground-breaking feral cat research extended to Cape York

Read the latest Issue here.

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AWC Sanctuaries

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The Doc has managed to visit quite a few AWC sanctuaries now, including:

If you would like to know more about the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) and the great work they do, visit here.

Flinders Island – wildlife

Australia, birds, Flinders Island, mammals, marsupials, reptiles, Tas, Wildlife

A follow up report on the wildlife, mostly the albino echidna (actually light brown not white) and the Bennett’s Wallaby. Plus the odd wombat, some young masked lapwing and a reptile or two. Report and pictures here.

Piccaninny Pleasures

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Just returned from a Cape York Trip visiting the AWC Sanctuary called Piccaninny Plains. Piccaninny Plains is the name of the pastoral lease if you were wondering. Report and photos here.

New South Wales’ Jurassic Park

Australia, AWC, mammals, marsupials, NSW

This is a big one.

“THOUSANDS of hectares of national park land across the State will be set aside for locally extinct animals such as the bilby and numbat under an ambitious NSW government plan to return the Australian bush as it was a century ago.”

Read the article here, some great pictures of rare Australian small mammals, several of the which The Doc saw on his recent trip. The Project is being run in conjunction with Australian Wildlife Conservancy. It is pleasing to see the NSW Government taking effective action to help save these critically endangered animals.