Eastern Quoll Monitoring at Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2023-05-25

Eastern Quolls are residents of Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary, on the fringe of Throsby near the northeastern border of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). 

The sanctuary has occupied this site for almost two decades. In this time it’s been an open-air lab for conservation experiments led by researchers at the ANU Fenner School for Environment and Society in partnership with the ACT Government. Thanks to these projects, visitors can spot animals that haven’t existed in their natural habitat for centuries. 

The annual night monitoring sessions allow researchers to stay up to date with Eastern Quolls and Bettongs.

Through persistence and adaptation ANU researcher Belinda Wilson has been able to boost reintroduction survival rates to 92 per cent. "This is a really exciting result and gives us the courage to expect that eastern quolls will make a comeback to the ACT and beyond," she says.

Read the story of Mulligans Flat and their neighbours here: 

https://reporter.anu.edu.au/strange-neighbours-the-sanctuary-on-the-edge-of-our-city

https://www.mulligansflat.org.au/