Here's the latest Quoll Seekers update on our 2009 project: Protecting Quolls in Queensland Landscapes (PQQL). We include a quick round-up of the recent Quoll Discovery Days in north Queensland and look at quoll-proof poultry pen designs and how QSN is inviting landowners to participate.

Camera trap surveys have commenced throughout the Mary River headwaters. Have Scott Burnett and his team been lucky and located either spotted-tailed or northern quolls? Preliminary results will be available next month and we'll provide you with details in the next issue of Network News.

Welcome to our newest QSN members and especially the Burnett Mary Regional Group.

If you're receiving this enews, it means you are still on our QSN list. However, some of you may not have completed a membership form. Please click here, fill out the form and email it to us - so you can stay on our list. We don't charge you a fee to join QSN - the completed form is all we ask for!

If you'd like more information about QSN and this latest project - please go to our website.

Ewa Meyer
WPSQ Projects Manager
ewameyer@wildlife.org.au

Our website is also the place to keep up with the latest news on other WPSQ projects: Qld Glider Network, PlatypusWatch and MangroveWatch.

Resources

Hot off the press - our latest brochure:
Quolls in the Mary River headwaters

We'd like to thank the Burnett Mary Regional Group, especially Carl Moller, for supporting the printing of this brochure, supplying images and helping with quoll day publicity. We also acknowledge project partner Marc Russell of the Mary River CCC for helping organise the Gympie QDD and for providing quoll habitat images.

A quoll-proof poultry pen fact sheet is now also available. If you live adjacent to a world heritage area or national park which is known quoll habitat, either in the far north or in southern Queensland, please contact us if you can help with distributing fact sheets to your neighbours.

If QSN members would like copies of these new publications or our other brochures to distribute through your networks, do let us know.

Help!

If you live in the Gold Coast hinterland or Scenic Rim, we could use your help at the Quoll Discovery Day to be held in the Numinbah Valley in July. Please contact us.

Artists, designers, photographers - we would love to acquire some artwork or designs featuring quolls to help us with fundraising and improving the profile of quolls. If you have the time and the talent, contact us.

Quoll-proof poultry pens

Do you know whether there are quolls in your area? Most of us just don't know. Their range and distribution is now limited and they're pretty hard to see even if you know they're around. However if you have poultry, including free range geese, ducks as well as chickens - you may already suspect what has been attacking them. In most cases it is likely to be foxes, but in some locations quolls have been caught in the act!

This photo was sent in to us from QSN members in Stanthorpe. The quoll made a quick escape - there were no more chooks for him at this farm!
(photo: A. James, Granite Belt Feb 2009)

Under the PQQL grant, we are making funds available to landowners who believe quolls live near their property and that their poultry may be at risk. Go to our website to read more about the scheme, (applications now closed)

You may never see the animal itself, so to help you identify tracks and scats of the spotted-tailed quoll, have a look at these.

What’s happening?

Quoll Discovery Days:

31 May 10am Gympie Civic Centre
rsvp ewameyer@wildlife.org.au

July details tba – Numinbah Valley

Have you ever seen a quoll? Come to our discovery days - and we can guarantee you will see one.

27-28 June Mudgereeba Show

Quoll Store

Our new t-shirts are here!

They come in all sizes - to order yours just gve us a call on 3221 0194 and we'll post one straight out. They cost $15 for QSN members and $20 for everyone else. We'll need to add $5 p&p to your order - so if you can drop into the office or buy in bulk, you'll get a bargain!

Show your support for QSN – get a fridge magnet. QSN members and project partners get one free.

$2 for everyone else inc postage. Contact us

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