Speaker

Eastern Quoll Restoration

David Hamilton, Conservation Ecologist - Tasmanian Land Conservancy

Quollity & Quantity - Eastern Quoll Restoration in Tasmania

The eastern quoll is a nationally endangered marsupial, which has been declining at different rates across Tasmania since the turn of the century.  

Working with the University of Tasmania, WWF Australia and the Tasmanian Quoll Conservation Program, the Tasmanian Land Conservancy is helping spearhead an innovative research project aimed at understanding and reversing these declines, before the species is pushed to the brink. 

Using a combination of long-term landscape monitoring and targeted population supplementations, this project will help bolster eastern quolls in their last wild stronghold, while also providing guidelines for future restoration of this species on mainland Australia.

Read more about the project here

David grew up in the Tasmania of the northern hemisphere (Scotland), but moved here in 2014 to start a PhD on Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer. After this experience morphed him into an accidental quoll scientist, he fell in love with Tasmania’s landscapes and wildlife and started with the TLC in 2021. David can be found out and about on our reserves searching for signs of quolls (and everything else), or stuck in front of his computer figuring out what makes them tick.