The spotted-tailed quoll is the Australian mainland’s largest carnivorous marsupial and is listed as a threatened species.
Threats
Spotted-tailed quolls compete for food and are killed by introduced predators such as foxes. They are also threatened by habitat loss and damage.
The Quollidor
The ‘Quollidor’ is the name given to the connected vegetation corridor that links the quoll’s habitat from the South Coast escarpment forests, to the Metropolitan Special Area water catchments across to the southern Blue Mountains.
Infra-red camera surveys have revealed that quolls are still present in the Barren Grounds Nature Reserve and Budderoo National Park. Because quolls have huge home ranges, from 300 to 3000 hectares, we know they will be moving from these reserves onto the private land surrounding the Quollidor.
Read more about Quolls, Quoll ecology and conservation programs across NSW.
The project
The Quollidor Project has been established under the NSW Saving our Species program to improve the monitoring of quolls in the Barren Grounds-Budderoo region.
To help quolls survive in this region we need to:
- understand more about their population health and breeding behaviour
- care for the vegetation corridor (Quollidor) that links their habitat
- increase and manage areas of habitat in and around the reserves
- control foxes in a way that doesn’t harm the quolls.
The Quollidor
Monitoring spotted-tailed quolls in the Barren Grounds and Budderoo habitat corridor.