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Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary, in the mallee country of far western New South Wales, offers a step back in time to an era when Australia's medium-sized marsupials hopped freely across the landscape. Nowadays, these beautiful creatures have all but disappeared in the wild, due to land-clearing and predation by foxes and feral cats.


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Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) has implemented an Ecological Health Monitoring Program to measure changes in the status and trend of conservation assets, and threats to those assets, across Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. Metrics from the program are reported in annual Ecohealth Reports and Scorecards. This is the Ecohealth Report for 2020.


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Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary Ecohealth Report 2022 2 2022 weather Scotia occurs on the boundary of the arid and semi-arid climate zones, experiencing hot summers and cold winters. Annual average rainfall is 229 mm (2003-2022; Figure 1), with spring and summer being generally wetter than winter (Figure 2).


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But staff and volunteers at AWC's Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary were recently treated to front row seats. AWC ecologist Tali Moyle managed to capture brilliant footage of the exciting fight - a video which has since racked up more than 15 million views on the AWC Facebook page.


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It was a routine, crisp Autumn night out in the field. Daniel Burton, Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) Sanctuary Manager, was conducting feral predator control 10m outside the northern boundary of Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary's (on Barkandji country) 8,000 hectare fenced area when something small and unfamiliar sprinted by his vehicle. Blink once and he might have missed it.


Rare footage of fighting Mulga Snakes recorded at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary AWC Australian

During 2017 and 2018, AWC also reintroduced the species into feral predator-free areas at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Australian, and Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in the Northern Territory. A red-tailed phascogale. "Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary sits within the historical range of the species, and so a reintroduction would.


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AWC began its reintroduction program over 25 years ago, when our founder, Martin Copley, fenced foxes and feral cats out of Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary in the hills, east of Perth, Western Australia, and reintroduced Brush-tailed Bettongs (Woylies) and several other threatened species.


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In this edition of Wildlife Matters, we explore Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. Also, saving the taravale wilderness; a golden day for the Gouldian Finch, and much more
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Scotia possesses Australia's largest mainland area completely free of introduced species (8000 ha). Six numbats were transferred from Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary to the Arid Recovery Reserve in South Australia in November 2005. The population at Scotia was derived from 43 numbats reintroduced to Scotia in 1999 and now stands at 140.


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The Sanctuary Mallee Cliffs National Park is located about 30 kilometres from Mildura, in the south-west of NSW. Established as a national park in 1977, Mallee Cliffs covers 57,969 hectares of open grassy plains, spinifex covered dunes, Belah woodlands and old-growth Mallee.


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US UK Donate now © Wayne Lawler/AWC Home Locations The Pilliga Representing a landmark collaboration between AWC and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Pilliga project area protects a vital piece of habitat for Australia's threatened species.


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The AWC sanctuaries - Scotia (NSW), Yookamurra (SA), and Mt Gibson (WA), as well as two NSW government partnership projects in the Pilliga and at Mallee Cliffs National Park, all lie within the regions where Bilbies once thrived but are now locally-extinct. Mallee Cliffs National Park, NSW