Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary in Mole Creek, Tasmania | Environmental conservation organisation

Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary

Locality: Mole Creek, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6363 6162

Address: 1892 Mole Creek Road 7304 Mole Creek, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.trowunna.com.au

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25.01.2022 Radio tracking the newly released quolls.

21.01.2022 Spring has sprung early at Trowunna! We have a clutch of goslings and our pouch checks have revealed joeys. We have so far confirmed joeys for Tasmanian devils, spotted tailed quolls, Eastern quolls and Eastern barred bandicoots. We have also noticed a number of our native plant species blossoming or budding up. #TrowunnaWildlifeSanctuary #trowunna #discovertasmania #spring #geese #easternquoll #easternbarredbandicoot #quoll #bandicoot

21.01.2022 Our kangaroos enjoying their breakfast. We have been open since the 05/06/20 and have had great support from the local community. If you are looking for a great experience for the family why not after visiting Trowunna visit one of the other local attractions.

20.01.2022 Unfortunately due to the impacts of the Corona virus Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary will be closed until further notice!! We would like to thank all of our visitors and local businesses for their support and wish everyone the very best in these trying times.

20.01.2022 Exciting News!!! We are opening again this Saturday the 06/06/2020! We will be resume our normal opening hours and our 3 guided tours at 11.00, 1.00 and 3.00. We hope to see you there. Please share to let everyone know!

19.01.2022 This Eastern Bettong that is part of our threatened species recovery programs. The Eastern Bettong is the largest of the Bettongs and was once widespread across Eastern Australia but their range is now restricted to Tasmania. Eastern Bettongs construct nests made of grass that they carry with their tails.

17.01.2022 In recognition of Endangered species day we are featuring Tasmania’s iconic Tasmanian devil. This animal is incredibly well suited to its environment with a number of adaptation that allows it to fill an important niche in the environment. The white blazes that appear on their chest and rump help break up their shape and assist with camouflage. Their ears shown in photo 2 allows for heat dissipation and also contributed to their name as the looked like glowing horns in low light. Photo 3 shows the incredibly wide gape that assist the devil with crushing bones that make up a large portion of their diet. The devil’s jaw pressure is considered one of the strongest for an animal of its size in the world.

17.01.2022 Although we haven’t had any visitors, we have still been busy with animal movements. The focus at the moment has been on our Eastern quoll population and their up coming breeding season. Males and females have been separated into individual sexed groups other than our recommended breeding pairs. These photos show the two distinct colour morphs of the species. We can also see the alert posture of standing and balancing with the tail to gain the greatest viewing area to check for predators.

16.01.2022 Trowunna would like to thank all of our supporters at this time. We appreciate that it tough for everyone but would greatly appreciate and help that you can give. Anyone who would like to sponsor animal or make a donation can use the PayPal link in the post below or contact us via our website www.trowunna.com.au and we will send out an adoption kit. Have a great Easter and stay safe. http://paypal.me/TrowunnaWildlifePark

14.01.2022 Two of our Tawny frogmouths demonstrating their defence behaviour. They use their great camouflage and posturing to blend into the surrounding environment to avoid predators.

14.01.2022 Here is a post from 2 years ago. This was a fantastic story on one of our successes with raptor releases. Trowunna knows that everyone is struggling with the Corona virus at the moment so we are hoping that a good news story brings some reprieve from all of the trying times that are going on. If anyone would like to help out with our work in conservation or one of our animals please see our website www.trowunna.com.au where you can find information for donations and sponsorship. Thank you and stay safe!

14.01.2022 This is one of our spotted tailed quolls demonstrating the typical clucking sound a female quoll makes as she comes into oestrus. The sound is design to carry significant distances to attract a mate.

12.01.2022 Week 2 of Trowunna’s raptor month features on of our Wedge Tailed Eagle. This eagle has been a resident at Trowunna for 36 years after being shot and having her wing broken. She is the oldest animal that resides at Trowunna and has been witness to so many changes.

12.01.2022 Trowunna was so excited to part of this great research program. It’s the ultimate goal of every conservation program to be retuning animal to the wild!

11.01.2022 It never ceases to amaze us how quickly the Cape Barren goslings grow it seems like the double their size every week. The goslings unique striped pattern provide camouflage and helps to break up their shape until their fledgling plumage comes through. #TrowunnaWildlifeSanctuary #discovertasmania #babyanimals

10.01.2022 This juvenile brown falcon is another success story for Trowunna’s raptor rehabilitation centre. It was in our care for a number of week before being successfully released.

09.01.2022 One of our Tasmanian devils enjoying the morning sun after a heavy frost. Discover Tasmania

08.01.2022 If you are looking for some great family time these school holidays why not come and visit us at Trowunna. We have 3 guided tours a day at 11.00, 1.00 and 3.00 the tours are free and included in your entry fee. We have family tickets available and if you have visited the Mole Creek caves you can use your ticket to get a 10% discount off your entry. Support a great Tasmania business that has been at the heart of Tasmanian wildlife conservation and education for over 40 Years. Visit the Great Western Tiers Tasmania ALL Things Tasmania Discover Tasmania

07.01.2022 First day with a summer feel sees the devils enjoying a swim

07.01.2022 Trowunna’s Forester Kangaroo enjoying eating some Silver Wattle browse which we provide as a winter supplement for them. Over 100 Forester Kangaroo are home at Trowunna, friendly and are happy locals can visit.

07.01.2022 We were surprised this week when our Spotted tailed quolls started there breeding season early with a female coming into oestrus and being paired up with a male. Checkout our stories for the video.

05.01.2022 Our yellowed tailed black cockatoo showing its great dexterity with both it’s beak and feet. The beak is perfectly design for opening the hard seed casing of our native plants or in this case a pine cone.

01.01.2022 Trowunna was very excited to be invited to be part of #threatenedspeciesday and launch a stunning new illustrated book An Antechinus in the Attic! From midday today, youth leaders from wildlife parks across Australia will introduce you to our nation's incredible, yet endangered or threatened, wildlife - via three video episodes. Learn more about these awesome animals and what you can do to protect them - from giant fluoro pink slugs to terrific tazzie devils, via epic emus... and creepy crocs - thanks to young leaders sharing their passion in each episode. Each species also stars in An Antechinus in the Attic - an A-Z of conservation to inspire young nature lovers. Created by Viarnne Gaibriel Mischon, beautifully illustrated by artist Myke Mollard and published by SBN School Broadcasting Network, it's set to become a new aussie classic. Please book using this link https://www.trybooking.com/BLISJ https://www.facebook.com/funkykidsradio https://www.facebook.com/rootsandshootsau https://www.littlescribe.com/national-threatened-species-wee See more

01.01.2022 An exciting week for Trowunna last week. Although the Sanctuary has been closed to the public since the 26 of March our work in conservation continues. Last week we had the privilege of releasing some of the Eastern Barred Bandicoots from our breeding program. Augmentation and reestablishment of wild populations has always been one of Trowunna’s founding principals. Tasmanian is very lucky to still have a number of species that are now extinct on the mainland but they still require our support. A big thank you to the Threatened Species Commissioner Threatened Species Recovery Hub Landcare Australia Tasmanian land conservancy and participating landholders and DPIPWE.