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Corridors for Tiger Quolls!
Anecdotal evidence of Spot Tailed Quolls was followed up by the DSE in 1995 who set numerous hair tube traps to sample one of the elusive resident animals. Samples from the hair tubes were confirmed as containing Tiger Quoll hair.
Local Landcarers planting out the Quoll Corridors Site
Anecdotal evidence of Spot Tailed Quolls was followed up by the DSE in 2005 who set numerous hair tube traps to sample one of the elusive resident animals. Samples from the hair tubes were confirmed as containing Tiger Quoll hair.
Following this the DSE embarked on a caging exercise to try and capture one, this however ended in failure with no Quolls being trapped.
Further anecdotal evidence confirms sightings post 2005 so YYLN and Wonyip Landcare Group applied for funding from the World Wildlife Fund to rehabilitate a key riparian area between the two isolated populations.
Corridors for Quolls received funding by the World Wildlife Fund's Threatened Species Network in 2006. The project will take 3 years to complete and will provide a 40 metre wide corridor through pine plantation along the banks of the Little Albert River, effectively linking the two areas of remnants that contain the isolated Quoll populations.
Further hair tube sampling will be conducted in November 2008 by YYLN, The Wonyip Landcare Group and the Arthur Rylah Institute, while an intensive monitoring exercise between HVP Plantations and YYLN will be conducted between November 2008 - November 2009 in the same area which will sample allflora and fauna and utilise infra red cameras to hopefully capture fauna such as Quolls, Bandicoots, Foxes, Cats and maybe even the fabled black panther!
For further information please contact Paul Martin on (03) 5175 7893 or paulm@wgcma.vic.gov.au
