Archives for the ‘Endangered Fauna’ Category

Quolls – Eumundi Green

By • Sep 26th, 2010 • Category: Endangered Fauna, Flora and fauna, News

The following Nature Notes, Quolls by Helen Hepburn, was published in the Eumundi Green on 16th Sept 2010:
An amazing thing happened on the outskirts of Eumundi/Cooroy recently with the body of a
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) being reported to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre by a truck
driver. Col Brownhill confirmed that the body was indeed a quoll. [...]



Captured on film .. most elusive butterfly

By • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Endangered Fauna, News, Print Media

The following article appeared in the Noosa Journal this week.

Richmond Birdwing Butterfly captured on flim



Richmond Birdwing Butterfly

By • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Endangered Fauna

In Queensland the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (RBB) in classified as vulnerable and their food plants the Pararisolochia praevenosa are currently listed as rare and in decline and the habitats are becoming more fragmented and the previous prolonged drought exacerbated the decline. There is an exotic species the Dutchman’s Pipe Vine that attracts the RBB to [...]



Coxen’s Fig Parrott

By • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: Endangered Fauna

Coxen’s Fig Parrot (CFP) is one of Australia’s rarest and least known birds. It has been recorded on just 200 occasions with 60 sightings in South East Queensland. The parrot is cryptic and extremely difficult to see in its habitat and may therefore be more common than the sightings suggest. CFP occurs wherever fig [...]



Quolls

By • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: Endangered Fauna

There are two subspecies of spotted-tailed quoll: the northern quoll and the southern spotted tailed quoll. Under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 the northern is listed as endangered and the southern is vulnerable. The EPBC Act 1999 lists both subspecies as nationally endangered.

Northern Quoll

Spotted tail quoll

Northern quoll
The northern quoll is the smallest of the quolls [...]