Rewilding Australia in Rose Bay, New South Wales | Environmental conservation organisation

Rewilding Australia

Locality: Rose Bay, New South Wales

Address: PO Box 639 2029 Rose Bay, NSW, Australia

Website: https://rewilding-australia.raisely.com

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24.01.2022 Following the unprecedented bushfires of last summer, Australians need a bold vision for how we can restore what we've lost, and improve the resilience of our landscapes to future floods, drought and fire. WWF-Australia has launched their Regenerate Australia vision that aims to achieve just that.

23.01.2022 Congratulations Aussie Ark! - another piece of the 'reversing extinction' strategy has been implemented for the eastern quoll on mainland Australia, with eastern quolls now living in the Barrington Tops once more, in a purpose-build 400 hectare sanctuary. Returning the eastern quoll to its former habitats will require a broad range of strategies, including free-roaming insurance-breeding centres. Rewilding Australia is happy to have helped Aussie Ark with post-release monitoring program design input - and we look forward to future updates on the success of this important component of a broader eastern quoll #rewilding program.

23.01.2022 This week marks the first day of an important trial to monitor whether eastern quolls are able to ‘self-rescue’ following local population declines in parts of Tasmania. This program is being led by Tasmanian Land Conservancy and a Rewilding Ecologist from Rewilding Australia is on deck to provide post-release monitoring support during the intensive monitoring phase of the program over the coming month. The program aims to determine whether low density populations in Tasmania...’s midlands can be effectively bolstered by augmenting the population with additional captive-bred quolls. These quolls have been provided by Tasmanian Quoll Conservation Program partners Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary and Devils at Cradle who have been working for the past 5 years with Rewilding Australia with support from WWF-Australia, to expand their captive capacity for eastern quolls. And haven’t they done a great job! Best of luck to these pioneer quolls! Photos courtesy of @tasland See more

22.01.2022 Looking for a good wildlife podcast? In this episode of Spotify's Untracked Wilds, Dan Rees speaks to Rewilding Australia's Director, Rob Brewster on the journey to reestablish the once lost eastern quoll, back to mainland Australia.

22.01.2022 These eastern quolls were recently trapped for health and pouch checks in Booderee National Park on the NSW south coast. It’s the only place on mainland Australia that the species is found in the wild. This sight has only been made possible through a collaborative effort by Parks Australia, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society, WWF-Australia and Rewilding Australia to trial a reintroduction of the species from captive breeding sanctuaries Devils at Cradle, Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary and Aussie Ark. If all goes well, we can expect to see young quolls out and about in November, following weaning. We’ll keep you updated on progress!

21.01.2022 Eye spy, with my little eye... The first quoll joeys of the season has been sighted by residents and captured on a Booderee National Park Quoll Cam! We can expect in the coming weeks these joeys will stick close to their mother until their natural instincts kick in (at about five months-old) and they learn to feed and live independently. Rewilding Australia, Parks Australia, WWF-Australia, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society, Wreck Ba...y Aboriginal Community Council, Taronga Zoo Sydney, Devils at Cradle, Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary and Aussie Ark are all part of a collaborative effort to test the re-introduction of eastern quolls to the wild on mainland Australia. The species was wiped out here by disease and feral pests about 50 years ago. These juveniles are offspring from quolls that were captive bred in 2017 in Tasmania, at Devils at Cradle and Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary. They’ve been living life in the wild at Booderee now, since March 2018 which is exactly 956 days ago (or 2 years and 7 months). This is really an achievement in itself, and despite ongoing threats to eastern quolls on mainland Australia (foxes, domestic dogs and cars), this information provides our team with an indication that reversing the mainland extinction of the species might just be possible where these threats are effectively managed. If you see any quolls in Booderee National Park, please respect their importance and enjoy them from a distance, and report all sightings to Park staff!

21.01.2022 Check out these little eastern quolls! They're with their mum, Snark, who was born in captivity in Tasmania in 2017. She was reintroduced into Booderee National Park in March 2018, and since then has gone to live a life in the wild. She's now an old quoll, but appears in good health on camera, and confirmed during a welfare check the reintroduction team from Parks Australia and ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society was able to give her last night. This collaborative rein...troduction effort by other partners including Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, WWF-Australia, Taronga Zoo Sydney, Devils at Cradle, Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary and Aussie Ark aims to test the thresholds of threat management (foxes and other environmental risks) that is required to allow us to reverse extinction on mainland Australia for this incredible species. See more

20.01.2022 Could Tassie be called upon to help secure the future of the koala? Are Australians wary of this, because of our experiences with introducing inappropriate fauna? Would koalas cause ecological damage on an island as large as Tasmania? When do we admit that human development trajectories on the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia will likely result in the ongoing loss of koalas? And even if we can reverse the decline in koalas on mainland Australia, should we also have an insurance population in our apple isle?

18.01.2022 Never heard of a mulgara? They're related to the devil and quoll, and cling onto life in some of Australia's harshest of environments. Gravely threatened by cats and foxes, an ambitious rewilding program by Wild Deserts and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service aims to restore the ecosystem role of the mulgara within the safety of fenced sanctuaries in western NSW. Providing safehavens for this hard-to-come-by species will allow a greater effort to begin on developing and testing strategies to bring back mulgaras beyond the fence.

18.01.2022 Meet ‘Henrietta’. Despite weeks of recent intensive monitoring, we still have the occasional eastern quoll we didn’t know about turn up in a monitoring trap! We’ve been working in Booderee National Park on the south coast of NSW with a dedicated ranger team from Parks Australia to test whether the invasive and highly destructive European red fox can be managed to a level that allows species that went locally extinct to be returned to the wild. And the eastern quoll is the ide...al candidate! Until recently, the only place you could find an eastern quoll in the wild was in our island state of Tassie. In 2018 and 2019 we released quolls into the park, and despite initial heavy losses in both years, quolls that made it past those perilous first few months have gone on to persist in the wild. This young girl is about 6 months old, and if all goes well, she herself will be ready to breed at the beginning of May next year. Her parents were part of a captive breeding program at Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary, Devils at Cradle and Aussie Ark. With research support from Threatened Species Recovery Hub researchers from ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society, vet support from Taronga Conservation Society’s Australian Registry of Wildlife Health, and assistance from WWF-Australia, as well as ongoing support from the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community, we’ve embarked on a collaborative program to test whether we can achieve what was only a few years ago, simply a research question on paper! Henrietta got a quick health check, a weigh-in and a VHF tail transmitter that we’ll track her with, and then was off again to feast on spiders and cicadas. See more

17.01.2022 "We must rewild the world. Rewilding is easier than you think. A century from now our planet could be a wild place again". David Attenborough, August 2020

17.01.2022 Australia's mammals didn't evolve with invasive and destructive foxes and cats. Arid Recovery lies at the heart of vital Australian rewilding research, as they investigate the nexus between fenced sanctuaries and survival in the wild.

17.01.2022 You’d be forgiven for thinking that these camera trap images were taken in Tassie. The Rewilding Australia Team has recently returned from a site visit to Aussie Ark - a 400 hectare fenced sanctuary designed to keep foxes and cats out and some of Australia’s critically endangered mammals, in. It’s the biggest landscape that devils have inhabited on mainland Australia since their mainland disappearance, and the first time that eastern quolls and devils have been together on mainland Australia for possibly up to 3000 years. This is ‘rewilding’ - the restoration of landscapes and their ecosystems with a focus on keystone species, such as carnivores. The Ark will provide a key site for testing strategies to rebuild our ecosystems, and provide a stepping stone for outside-the-fence reintroductions in the years to come.

13.01.2022 Never heard of a Dibbler?! An ambitious and exciting rewilding program, 'Return to 1616', supported by Perth Zoo aims to restore the biodiversity of Dirk Hartog island off the Western Australian coast to resemble what the first Europeans might have laid eyes upon over 400 years ago.

13.01.2022 Ever tried to explain to your family or friends just what a quoll is? Here's a brilliant video that provides a great overview of our quolls and their relatives!

13.01.2022 Today, our team is on the road again, transporting a very special eastern quoll. Rewilding Australia is supporting the ‘Eastern Quoll Wild Genomics Program’, a project that will develop two genomic resources: a chromosome-scale reference genome assembly for the eastern quoll, and exome capture data to examine allelic diversity and genetic structure in extant Tasmanian and recently-extinct mainland populations. Sounds confusing if you’re not across genetics, but this informati...on will help us better manage eastern quoll populations that have declined and become fragmented since European arrival, and the subsequent influences of invasive foxes, cats and dogs. It’s going to take a broad suite of strategies to restore the eastern quoll across the landscapes it once called home - and supporting this vital research is part our strategy for the securing the future of the species. See more

12.01.2022 Blink and you’ll miss him! George the captive-bred quoll, goes wild in Tassie’s midlands to trial whether low density eastern quoll populations can ‘self-rescue’ and stabilise at higher levels when the population is supplemented. This groundbreaking program is being led by Tasmanian Land Conservancy and supported by a Rewilding Australia rewilding ecologist, who will help intensively monitor the quolls that have augmented the small local wild population. Quolls supplied by the Tasmanian Quoll Conservation Program, a partnership between Devils at Cradle, Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary and East Coast Nature World.

11.01.2022 The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act is Australia's central piece of environmental legislation. An independent interim report found that under successive governments, Australia's environment has been in an unsustainable state of decline from habitat destruction, invasive species and changing climate, and the Act has been ineffective in addressing these issues at scale. Rather than enhance the Act by waiting for the completion of the independent review ...and incorporating improvement recommendations, the Australian Government is now pushing amendments through Parliament that will further weaken the Act, by passing responsibilities to the States and reducing the ability to address environmental issues at the landscape-scale, which is so vital to effective environmental protection. WWF-Australia has launched a campaign to enhance our environmental laws. If you love Australia and want to help protect our unique landscapes, add your voice to their campaign today! See more

11.01.2022 Love numbats!? Hear how Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia has helped ensure that 2020 has been a bumper crop for the highly endangered numbat that call Dryanda Woodland home.

06.01.2022 ANIMOZ is the latest Aussie Trading Card Game for kids and challenging strategy game for adults. ANIMOZ have been huge supporters of Rewilding Australia, and their cards even feature our team's favourite Aussie animal, the eastern quoll! Have your say on which species should make their new card pack. Our choice is the southern brown bandicoot, for its vital role in our ecosystem and its position as an underdog in the fight against cats and foxes! Visit www.ANiMOZ.world/vote to have your say!

05.01.2022 Conservationists working with disease-free Tasmanian devils have taken the next step in what they hope will be a rewilding project that could eventually see the species reintroduced to the Australian mainland...

05.01.2022 Foxes and cats have caused the extinction of at least 30 of Australia's unique mammals. A bold project by the NSW Government's Saving our Species program and Australian Wildlife Conservancy to remove these damaging invasive predators from 9,570 hectares of the NSW rangelands has been successful. This paves the way for the reintroduction of 10 regionally extinct species. Fenced sanctuaries, along with fox and cat-free island arks will play a vital role in providing refuge for our unique remnant mammal fauna, while researchers and land managers develop and test strategies on how best to help our mammals persist in the broader unfenced landscape.

04.01.2022 Did you know that devils, eastern and spotted-tailed quolls, and potoroos once called Wilsons Promontory home? After years of planning, a significant announcement has just been made by Parks Victoria - the Prom will become an invasive species free zone. This will provide the largest fox and cat free sanctuary in south eastern Australia, and become part of a broader effort to future-proof forest mammals from extinction.

03.01.2022 Love Victoria's Mornington Peninsula? Rewilding Australia has been helping the Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation group with their efforts to reverse the decline in koalas on the peninsula. Visiting or live on the peninsula and want to help? Drive with caution, restrain dogs, and plant koala feed trees!

02.01.2022 By the end of last summer, a quarter of all koala habitat on public lands had been scorched by fire and an estimated one third of all NSW koalas had been killed. As humans encroach on the remnant fragmented vegetation, these remaining vulnerable populations come under an even greater threat of local extinction. Australians now have a greater responsibility than ever before to protect and restore our koalas. Following the fires, Byron Shire Council has stepped up, and is working in partnership with Rewilding Australia to investigate whether improved wildlife road signs might help reduce road collisions and improve the outlook for our koalas. Because every koala counts!

02.01.2022 Tonight, in a unique location in the Barrington Tops region of New South Wales, devils will roam the mainland for the first time in 3000 years. Aussie Ark is a 400 hectare purpose-built sanctuary that showcases the rich biodiversity mainland Australia once supported. Aussie Ark now provides a vital insurance population for so many of our threatened mammals, and a stepping stone for future reintroduction efforts to landscapes where foxes and cats are managed.

01.01.2022 Today is Australia's Threatened Species Day. 7 September marks the day in 1936 that the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, died in captivity, marking the last time the species was ever recorded alive. More tragic is that there were repeated warnings for over a century and even a 'Save the Tasmanian Tiger Program'. In the 1860's, naturalist John Gould stated that "When the comparatively small island of Tasmania becomes more densely populated, and its primitive forests are interse...cted with roads from the eastern to the western coast, the numbers of this singular animal will speedily diminish, extermination will have its full sway, and it will then, like the Wolf in England and Scotland, be recorded as an animal of the past". In 1913, 50 years after Gould's warning and almost a quarter of a century before the species extinction, American author William Hornaday said "the extermination of the Thylacine would be a zoological calamity, but it is impending". Rewilding Australia's mission is to ensure our other keystone marsupial carnivores, the devil and the quolls, never go the same way. We must reverse their decline, and restore their role as ecosystem regulators in Australia's fragile landscapes. Help us by making a tax deductible donation today: https://rewilding-australia.raisely.com/

01.01.2022 In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey of people found that the three most important things to people had become friends, nature, and art. Eggpicnic have been generous supporters of Rewilding Australia, and now, they give you the opportunity to incorporate these important things in life, via a purchase of their art. Support nature by purchasing a beautiful quoll, glider and wallaby print for a loved one today! Eggpicnic illustrations are printed on 320 gsm archival fibre based cotton rag and each print is individually signed by hand by Camila, Co-founder of Eggpicnic. They are designed and made in-house in their Sydney studio.