Arid Recovery visit - Western Quoll
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2022
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with thanks to cameraman Connor
Footage of a western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) taken during a visit to the Arid Recovery Wildlife Reserve in South Australia. Arid Recovery is an independent not-for-profit, who have been pioneering conservation science since 1997 to help threatened species thrive across the Australian outback. The 123km2 reserve is protected by a 1.8m tall fence to exclude feral cats, foxes and rabbits, which is vital to the survival of the threatened species re-introduced into the reserve. Check it out at aridrecovery.org.au/
Also known as the chuditch, the western quoll was once found across 70% of the Australian continent. As a result of pressures such as predation by cats and foxes, deliberate and accidental poisoning, land clearing, inappropriate fire regimes, grazing by stock and feral herbivores, illegal shooting, accidental drowning in water tanks, being hit by motor vehicles and entanglement in barbed wire fencing, the western quoll is now confined to a small south-western corner of Western Australia. There are now ongoing attempts to re-establish the western quoll in parts of its former range, including the Arid Recovery Wildlife Reserve. 
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Ooh another one, thank you
That was amazing, they are so cute.
The march of the invasive cane toad is unstoppable at this point, they have reached Derby and are estimated to be in Broome in the next year or so. They spread waterways at around 30kms a year. The Western quoll or chuditch, as we call them in WA is already a threatened species, unfortunately not many care about the environment in Australia, wildlife has no value to most, so the ecocide continues..
Oh that is devastating - I hadn't realised the toads had gotten so far west. If they penetrate the south-west of WA, it will probably be the knock-out blow for the chuditch, as it has been for the northern and eastern quolls 😪
Ban cats outdoors
Enforce cat licenses like dogs
Allow domestic breeding of chudditch
Eventually replace domestic cats as the majority
Before you scoff.. the economic benefit would be incredible if you think about it. This is a firm belief of mine and I have two cats, they are not allowed outside
I live on 80 acres, none of my neighbours has undesexed cats and we found a starving feral kitten hiding in the engine of my car. I was shocked we had one so close, as we own large dogs. It's possible the mother was killed by one of my dogs, even though we do have farm cats.
Hello TP, cats are certainly a vexed issue which bitterly divides communities - they are both beloved family pet and yet also profligate breeding, horrifyingly efficient killing machines. It is absolutely incredible the number of cats in places like the country surrounding Arid Recovery - the middle of the outback, yet overrun by feral cats. Our own refuge in South East QLD is over 10km from the nearest residence, but the number of massive feral cats there is staggering. Trapping and removing them feels like taking buckets of water out of a river - more just rush into the vacant territory. Unfortunately, there is zero chance of ever having a nationally coordinated extermination campaign for felines, as the community outcry would be enormous. The choice is stark - we can have either have our bushland full of native wildlife, or full of cats, but not both. The odds are very much against our "snack-sized" native wildlife, which look to destined to only persist in small, fenced reserves, while the cats have unfettered rule over the rest of the continent.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge that's terrible. I'm not sure how we can eradicate them without harming other species.. and foxes and rabbits.. we've stuffed things up. I'm in an E3 environmental zone. I do have farm birds, and horses, but most of the land is friendly for wildlife and I actually have wildlife intermingling with my pets. I almost regret having other animals now I've been here a while. At the same time, I'm trying to be self sufficient. I won't be getting any more horses. We have lyre birds, wombats, wallabies, death adders (a lot of death adders, you'd be surprised, one was living with us, he has his own playlist), red belly blacks, turtles, wild ducks. It's endless.
We have cats that we lock up at night. They are desexed and now a random feral kitten.
we have 4 dogs - two very big hunting types and we have not seen a fox. All my nieghbours have them. We also don't get wild dogs, I think it's not worth the trouble when there's easier prey on the neighbouring properties.
So I was very surprised to find the kitten survived. The problem with dogs, is they need to be taught not to go for wild animals. Having birds has really helped. We now have egrets that nest near us and the dogs never disturb them or the wild ducks. It's fantastic. It's possible having cats has helped the kitten because she was in our home zone, but I'm pretty certain a feral cat that was further away wouldn't survive. They have that instinct to go for predators.
@@tuppy Sounds like you are doing an awesome job 😊
We have 2 miscreant kelpies who have a penchant for harassing reptiles and echidnas if left to their own devices, so they are fenced in and never allowed out of our sight. We also have a trio of elderly house cats who can only go outdoors in a netted cat run. The house cats were feral kittens who were born under our verandah, and abandoned at one day old by their feral mother (who we trapped a few weeks later), so we hand-raised them. Yeah, we have 'sucker' written all over us 😏Adult feral cats however, are trapped and removed. We rarely see foxes on the larger old-growth property, which is regularly visited by dingoes, but the smaller property is adjacent to hobby farmers with sheep, and they regularly bait for "wild dogs" - interestingly that area is overrun by foxes 🤔
@@GubanaNatureRefuge yeh funny that. Kill off the apex predator and I winter why there’s foxes. I abhor 1080. Despicable poison.
i would have done it a favor and killed it
nice
You can only hope the Australian government will do something about the vast invasive animals already on the loose. I think I heard they have the largest number of wild camels in Australia. They belong nowhere on that island, and how hard can it be to get rid of these huge animals? It's not like they can hide
Hi 90's Kid, the challenges with finding and eliminating camels are the huge distances involved, their high mobility, low density and low requirement for water, but these could be overcome by a government focused on protecting our unique environment and willing to commit the necessary spending. Australia however does not have such a government.
Are the camels destructive to the land? I have worked with their cousins llama and alpaca they eat vegetation - is that why? They migrate so I suppose at least they'd move on, but may leave no vegetation behind them.
I will find and tickle
That may cost you a few fingers, but it's probably worth it😉