Feral cat controls helping boost endangered numbat population
www.abc.net.au
Conservation scientists credit the curbing of introduced predators with a rebound in the population of endangered iconic numbats in Western Australia.

Fcuk cats!

  • NathA
    5·
    10 days ago

    I was part of the team doing this survey about 20 years ago. We had permission to camp in the woodlands and were there for three days. I saw zero numbats - we saw signs of them however. I don’t remember if anyone in the team saw any, I think we didn’t, but this article seems to suggest that five is the lowest count and that was 2018.

    So, this is amazing news.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for helping and tha ks fir the interesting anecdote.

      I am in NE Tassie, cycled past 2 dead wombats and horrifically a dead quoll the other day (and the always endless dead possums and wallibies) all road kill ;( tje first time i had seen a quoll road kill.

      On the plus side the big witer storms we had months ago closed a back road over the mountain near me (trees down) but it can be cycled as somone has cut parts of the trees away, we were cycling through the other day and a quoll appeared on the trial in front of me before ducking back ito the bush but if couse the eurpohoria wears off after another km or two, theres near endless native forest logging and horrific destruction :(

      I hope the one I saw wasn’t the one dead on the road 2 days later only 2km away :(