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Australia has four species of quoll: the spotted-tailed, the northern, eastern and western quoll. The spotted-tailed quoll and the smaller northern quoll are both found in Queensland. Spotted-tailed quolls are Australia’s largest native marsupial carnivore.
Quoll Seekers Network (QSN) was established to raise community awareness of quolls in Queensland and to help people enjoy living alongside quolls. The network aims to be Queensland’s central non-government body for collecting and disseminating information about quoll populations.
QSN, originally established in 2001, allied itself with Wildlife Queensland in 2007 where its work continues to expand. Wildlife Queensland’s support of QSN will ensure continuity and will build on the ongoing collection of information about spotted-tailed quoll populations in south-east Queensland.
QSN welcomes wildlife enthusiasts who want to be involved with the network. As a QSN member, we invite you to contribute to our quoll sightings database. Complete and return the QSN registration and sightings form. You will receive priority opportunities to volunteer in QSN activities.
The network researches and surveys quoll populations to better understand how to support their continued. Community members contribute sighting information and wildlife staff and volunteers carry out field research, education and communication.
Purpose: Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management group and the New Townsville City have joined forces with Wildlife Queensland to establish a Quoll Seekers Network in the Townsville area. The project aims to gain an understanding of northern quoll populations in the Townsville region.
The project aims to encourage community awareness and appreciation of northern quolls, and to collect and present information on northern quoll populations in the Townsville area.
Activities: Community quoll surveys, field data collection, quoll population mapping and monitoring.
More information: Bronwen Houlden
Supported by: Townsville City Council and Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management Group
Purpose: Raise awareness of spotted-tailed quolls and northern quolls in the Cairns area and Atherton Tablelands; raise local interest in quolls and their habitat
Activities: Quoll discovery days, surveys of quoll populations in Far North Queensland
More information Glen Kvassey, FNQS
Support: the FN QSN is seeking funding to support its activities.
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 will be in place by the end of 2007.
Supported by: Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority, Gold Coast City Council, SEQ Catchments, QPWS.
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
Funding: Funding for the Quoll Seekers Network (QSN) is on a project basis through grants. Administration and management costs are borne by Wildlife Queensland. Wildlife Queensland is currently seeking funding to expand the QSN’s activities into the rest of Queensland.
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© Wildlife Queensland August 2008