The network collates data on quoll populations to better understand how to support their continued existence in Queensland.
Network members contribute in many ways - assisting with Quoll Discovery Days, writing articles for our publications, fundraising, office support, and assisting with our education program. Above all, members help to raise the profile of quolls in the broader community.
Protecting Quolls in Queensland landscapes 2009
Tiger Quoll pauses before jumping across mountain stream.
Photo © John McCannThis was the most significant quoll research and conservation project that Wildlife Queensland has ever undertaken. One of the outcomes we had hoped to achieve through our activities during 2009 was to increase community knowledge of quolls and engage people in the project.
There is no doubt we succeeded in more ways than one! There were:
- 5 quoll discovery days – with 210 people attending
- 49 quoll-proof poultry pen applications – with 23 successful applicants
- 16 schools visited - with 1159 students attending
- 46000 hours of camera surveillance
- 45 new quoll records
- 218 new QSN members
- 35 radio, television and newspaper appearances (that we know of)
- 5 Quoll Seekers Network newsletters
- 1000 Quoll Info kits produced – distribution continues through online sales
- 5000 Mary River quoll brochures distributed.
Our Network Newsletters, available online, have more information about how this project progresed throughout 2009.
The final report under the Caring for our Country project 'Protecting Quolls in Queensland Landscapes' 2009 was submitted to the Australian Government by Wildlife Queensland. Download your copy of the field report here.
For more information about this project, please email Quollseekers
Supported by: The Australian Government through the Caring for Our Country program.
Other partners were University of the Sunshine Coast; SEQ Catchments; Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM; Gympie Regional Council; Townsville City Council; Cairns Regional Council; Queensland Parks and Wildlife; and the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee.
Spotted-tailed Quoll
Photo © Luke JacksonFar North Quoll Seekers Network
Aims: Raise community awareness and collect information on spotted-tailed quolls and northern quolls in the Cairns, Daintree and Atherton Tablelands areas; raise local interest in quolls and their habitat
Activities: Quoll discovery days, surveys of quoll populations in Far North Queensland
More information: Contact Glenn Kvassay or read the latest Spot Tales newsletter
Support: FN QSN is partly supported by Cairns Regional Council and is interested in hearing from people interested in helping extend its activities.
North Queensland Quoll Seekers Network
Aims: Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management group and the New Townsville City joined forces with Wildlife Queensland in 2008 to run a Quoll Seekers Network in the Townsville area.
The project aims to gain an understanding of northern quoll populations in the Townsville region.
Activities: Community quoll surveys, field data collection, quoll population mapping and monitoring.
More information: Contact QSN or read the latest report.
Supported by: Townsville City Council and Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management Group
Border Ranges of Queensland/NSW border: Quoll survey and community liaison – completed
Purpose: Survey quolls in Border Ranges, including Main Range, Lamington, Springbrook, Mount Barney and Goomburra.
Outcomes: No photographic evidence was found of spotted-tailed quoll populations in the Border Ranges but reliable sighting reports were received. Survey and liaison activities completed September 2007: 6120 camera hours from camera traps were established at 5 sites in the Queensland Border Ranges; 4 Quoll Discovery Days presented public talks and introduced local communities to live captive quolls; and 5 pilot quoll-proof poultry pens were in place by the end of 2007.
Supported by: Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority, Gold Coast City Council, SEQ Catchments, QPWS
Project completed: August 2008
Beaudesert report to be available via North Beaudesert Study: Quoll survey and community liaison – completed
Purpose: Establish community and field surveys to provide information on the distribution of spotted-tailed quolls in the Greenbank–Munruben area, Beaudesert Shire, and to raise local awareness.
Outcomes: Spotted-tailed quolls were confirmed in North Beaudesert Shire as a result of scat and hair analysis, and the logging of road kills. Survey and community awareness activities completed June 2007: 150 local residents attended an information session; the local press covered the project and the quoll existence in the area; and 500 trap nights were undertaken using hair tubes and live traps. An ongoing quoll sighting report network was established.
Supported by: Beaudesert Shire Council and Southern Regional Pipeline Alliance
Project completed: September 2007
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