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 mainland Australia’s largest native marsupial carnivore.
About Quoll Seekers NetworkQuoll Seekers Network (QSN) was established to raise community awareness of quolls in Queensland, gather information on quoll populations, and help people enjoy living alongside quolls.
The network aims to be Queensland’s central non-government body for collecting and disseminating information about quolls in order to achieve good conservation outcomes. Networking with other organisations is a key component of Wildlife Queensland’s operations and communications strategy.
Originally established in 2001, QSN became a new program under Wildlife Queensland in 2007 where its work continues to expand. Wildlife Queensland’s support of QSN ensures the ongoing collection of data on quoll populations throughout Queensland and continued efforts to address the threats that quolls face from habitat loss and invasive species.
QSN collects data on quoll populations, threats, and conservation initiatives to better understand how to support their continued existence in Queensland.
Network members contribute in many ways:
Above all, members help to raise the profile of quolls in the broader community.
Saving the Spotted-Tailed Quoll: A Landholder’s Guide is produced by Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network and funded by the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grant program.
The guide aims to provide practical ideas that may contribute to saving this elusive species.
Saving the Spotted-Tailed Quoll: A Landholder’s Guide is available to view as a flipbook below and can also be downloaded as a PDF document. To request a printed copy, please contact Wildlife Queensland at communications@wildlife.org.au or phone (07) 3844 0129.
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Join Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seeker’s Network and Noosa & District Landcare, along with expert presenters Dr Scott Burnett and Dr Sean FitzGibbon, to learn more about the ‘secret life’ of cryptic, endangered quolls and what you can do to help support them across the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland and throughout the Mary River Catchment with our Quoll Discovery Day.
When: Saturday 23 October from 9 am to 12:45 pm
Where: Noosa & District Landcare Rural Futures Centre, 65 Pavilion St, Pomona, Qld
How: Book online at Eventbrite for this Covid-safe event
In this Wildlife Queensland webinar, presenters Matt Cecil (Wildlife Queensland) and Dr Sean FitzGibbon (University of Queensland) provide a fascinating look at Queensland’s quolls, with a specific focus on the endangered spotted-tailed quoll. Learn about these amazing marsupials, their habitat and ecology, as well as the threats they face and current conservation initiatives.
QSN is continuing the search for the elusive spotted-tailed quoll in areas north of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and into the Mary River Catchment – and they need your help!
Wildlife Queensland has launched a new guide this World Habitat Day that provides information and advice to landholders, natural resource managers and the public about the endangered spotted-tailed quoll. The guide aims to provide practical ideas that may contribute to saving this elusive species.
Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network recently completed a three-month infra-red (IR) camera monitoring project looking for spotted-tailed quoll at Mt Perry in the Flinders Peak region, South-East Queensland.
Have you spotted a quoll in the Mary River Catchment? Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network is on a mission to find quolls in the Mary River Catchment – and they need your help!
QSN is surveying to determine if either spotted-tailed quoll or northern quoll still inhabits the Mary River Catchment. Please record your sighting. QSN will use sighting information to actively survey for either quoll species in key locations using camera surveys and scent detection dog surveys.
Head to the Atlas of Living Australia BioCollect page to log details of quoll sightings in the area.
Wildlife Queensland continues its quest to save the endangered spotted-tailed quoll and northern quoll.
Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network has been granted funding from the state government to engage a quoll detection dog team to complete a series of surveys in the Mary Valley, South Eastern Queensland.
The Quoll Seekers team undertook a survey within Spring Mountain Forest Park, Flesser Reserve and Jerry’s Downfall Reserve (Park Ridge South) on Tuesday, 25 June, before wet weather forced the survey to finish prematurely. Accompanying us was the detection dog team, Carnarvon Canines from Wompoo Farm Pty Ltd.
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