Arid Recovery visit - Western Quoll

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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 https://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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