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Bandicoot Recovery Action Group

Phone: 8552 9423 or 8558 3644

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25.01.2022 Why are so many species on the brink of extinction? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words...

24.01.2022 Look what we found this morning at Deep Creek while moving the cameras! Anyone have any ideas what this is? The girls were intrigued Deep Creek Conservation Park

24.01.2022 Join in! And if you record bandicoots in your backyard or local park, that is a real bonus!!!

23.01.2022 They do get very habituated to humans and he's obviously foraging for food scraps. Pretty cute but hope he keeps out the way of cars and dogs

23.01.2022 Have you seen one of these adorable little critters? Let us know! At first glance, you might mistake it for a rat. But the long, pointed snout, small, rounded e...ars and large rump with short thick tail, will help you tell the difference. What youre looking at is a Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus). Considered endangered nationally and in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges, this native mammal is known for excellent digging skills, which improve soil quality and help native plants germinate. Learn more: http://tiny.cc/southern-brown-bandicoot. A big thank you to Penny Wright for sending in this video.

23.01.2022 For all those lucky people with bandicoots around!

22.01.2022 We would like to thank the RSPCA for their generous donation of 6 motion cameras and accessories for the BRAG monitoring group. We really appreciate their support and hope to have the cameras out on private property very soon!

21.01.2022 iBandi aims to better protect endangered southern brown bandicoots by discovering more habitat. These curious creatures use impenetrable blackberry thickets if there's no suitable native vegetation. We're looking for habitat they could use - with your help.

20.01.2022 New research from the Threatened Species Recovery Hub has estimated that roaming domestic cats are having a greater role in wildlife predation than previously t...hought. The research compared the predation rates of domestic, stray and feral cats on native and introduced wildlife and sought to understand the toll that varying densities of cats in different landscapes are having. Incredibly, the research estimated that the predation rates of pet cats per square kilometre in residential areas is 2852 times greater than predation rates by feral cats in natural environments, and 1.32.3 times greater than predation rates per square kilometre by feral cats living in urban areas, since pet cats live at much higher densities. It is a stark reminder that keeping your pet cats contained is an effective way to protect the remarkable wildlife that call Australia home. You can read the published science here: https://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR19174 : C Potter.

20.01.2022 Further help for our bandicoots

19.01.2022 Seen a bandicoot lately? Wed love to know! Not just because theyre cute but because this information helps us determine where these endangered critters live ...and how many there are. Share your videos and pictures with us in the comments below. Be sure to include where they were taken :) Not sure youd recognise a Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus) if you saw one? Check out our resources: http://tiny.cc/southern-brown-bandicoot. A big thank you to Brooke Johns for sending this video in.

17.01.2022 Absolutely nothing to do with bandicoots or any other native animal, but thought this might make you smile on this Friday. Just because..... what do you think?

17.01.2022 You can often unexpectedly come across them like this; such a pleasure to have this experience

16.01.2022 How cool is this? An idea for some local artwork to highlight one of our endangered species?

15.01.2022 Want to help our Island friends? And you can do this at home too

13.01.2022 Thank you to Joanne for allowing us to share some bandicuties.

12.01.2022 We see lots of these little beasties on our cameras! They love the peanut paste baits we put out to try to attract bandicoots

11.01.2022 Look what we clocked on our private property while checking for bandicoots! Not good.... But among other things found this little nugget too!

11.01.2022 These will be really interesting

10.01.2022 We have some lovely images of bandicoots found on BRAG foundation member Evie's property - lucky her! She has them and Wendy and I are still desperately hanging out to find some in Deep Creek. Here they are, along with the habitat they were found in, Note the very pointy nose, short tail and large butt! Have you seen anything like this on your properties? Please let us know and we'll try to get some cameras out to check what you have.

10.01.2022 Yay, this is great news

09.01.2022 We always knew they were very important

09.01.2022 We'd like to thank Dr Elisa Sparrow for all her hard work in helping establish this group; it was her passion for bandicoots and vision that enabled BRAG to be formed and we've been very grateful for her support, initial and ongoing training and assistance over this time. Elisa now moves to Green Adelaide to continue her great work there. We also look forward to working closely with Luke Price and continue our work helping the Southern Brown Bandicoot.

08.01.2022 We're back! And cameras have been put out this morning again searching for the ever elusive bandicoots at Deep Creek Conservation Park. A beautiful,cold and crisp morning saw ice on the ground still at 10.30 am but we warmed up soon enough wandering through this beautiful bush. Some locals also found a nice spot to enjoy the sunshine. Some interesting diggings, not bandicoots but do you know who might have made these? South Coast Environment Centre Normanville Natural Resource Centre

07.01.2022 Just finished going through the cards from our last visit to Deep Creek. No bandicoots, but some very-addicted-to-our-peanut-paste-bait little beasties who visited the site every day; mostly several times during the day or night!!! And we also had this very interesting find with moss growing on it

06.01.2022 Proof! We all knew how important these little guys are

05.01.2022 It is great bandicoot habitat too so care is taken removing large patches of these if they are found in known areas where bandicoots live

04.01.2022 How amazing is this footage from Tassie. What do you think?

04.01.2022 No no, I know. This is not a bandicoot! However this is too cute not to share - a friend of mine is hand rearing this wee puggle - a baby echidna! Brings back memories, I once had the pleasure of doing just this in Darwin but so different to other babies or marsupial joeys. These you just feed once every four days or so! Just like mum would do in the burrow. I might have to dig out my northern bandicoot joey handraising photos while we are spending more time at home to post here!

04.01.2022 South Coast Environment Centre

03.01.2022 Australian wildlife really packs a punch . Don't be fooled by the cute and fluffy reputation. Like many small Australian mammals, Quenda (Southern Brown Bandi...coot) can be feisty . According to AWC Field Ecologist, Nicola Palmer, this is normal behaviour for males: Its not unusual for us to catch them with wounds on their back or missing an eye/ear/tail. But this was the first time Ive ever seen it happen! N Palmer / AWC at Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary

02.01.2022 What fantastic news from our friends on KI. Keep up the great work Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife and my friend Dianne Pearson

01.01.2022 We placed our first cameras on private land this morning to see if there are bandicoots on their property. A few arguments with blackberry later..... but we are hopeful the bandicoots will have a nice safe home here. We'll check back in a couple of weeks and see what we've found. Thank you Linda for your time this morning

01.01.2022 Helping our little mates over on Kangaroo Island....

01.01.2022 So important for all our wildlife, even more important to ensure ALL rubbish is safely and securely (and correctly) disposed of, so this never happens