Quoll Quest: Wild West – Help Save the Spotted-tailed Quoll

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Howdy Partner, will you help the Quoll Seekers Network (QSN) set some clear boundaries for defining the western haunts of this endangered carnivorous marsupial—Queensland’s closest thing to a “big cat”—this World Wildlife Day?

The spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) is an endangered, cat-sized critter found only in Australia. But it’s so rare that scientists still don’t know its full range in Queensland. After our 2024 Sunshine Coast surveys sadly turned up zero quolls, we feared the worst for the continual survival of this species here … But in January 2025, a verified sighting west of Dalby reignited our hopes … Best of all, the sighting was just kilometres from the wilds of Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve, a tract of land that is privately protected by The Wildlife Land Fund.

Are “spotties” quietly clinging on in Queensland’s remote west? The Threatened Species Recovery Plan for the spotted-tailed quoll has designated this corridor as crucial for the continued existence of this species. So, our Quoll Seekers Network Project Officers need to find these quolls pronto! It’s time to pull on our boots and take our quest out west before it’s too late.

To protect the state’s largest and rarest marsupial predator, we MUST determine its western strongholds.

Our mission? Raise $12,000 to survey these remote landscapes, including rugged Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve, habitat near Yarraman and Blackbutt, and heading south to Sundown and Girraween National Parks. Our committed team will use drones, wildlife cameras and on-foot ground-truthing to scour QUOLLity habitat looking for quolls.

UPDATE: A generous, anonymous donor has offered to double the donations until we reach our goal of $12,000 … the Quoll Quest continues!

Your donation enables our dedicated eQUOLLogists (QSN ecologists) to QUOLLect the data needed to safeguard these elusive predators.

$100 helps deploy a camera trap to capture any sightings. $200 funds the mapping and data analysis to identify likely quoll habitats. $300 expands our cutting-edge drone surveys over vast, rugged terrain. $500 supports our QUOLLified team’s convoy west, paying for fuel & travel. $1000 helps us follow up local sightings and educate locals and nearby landholders on how to find and protect quolls.

Without urgent action, this beautiful spotted apex predator could become QUOLLateral damage – going extinct just like its long-lost dasyurid relative the Thylacine. Your support will help Quoll Seekers Network track, protect, and recover this endangered marsupial before it fades into extinction.

Let’s ensure Queensland’s “spotties” don’t disappear forever.

Di Baartz

2 months ago

$200

JT

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$1000

PA

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$25

EG

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$100

KAY KELLY

5 months ago

$200

Nicky Rolls

5 months ago

$50

Jane Chalmers

5 months ago

$100

Anonymous

5 months ago

$20

Peter Charles Hofstetter

5 months ago

$300

Anonymous has matched the donation by Joanna Logan

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$50

Joanna Logan

5 months ago

$50

Anonymous has matched the donation by Alina Zwar

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$50

Alina Zwar

5 months ago

$50

Anonymous has matched the donation by Jurgen OVERHEU

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$100

Jurgen OVERHEU

5 months ago

$100

Anonymous has matched the donation by Maureen Schmitt

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$100

Maureen Schmitt

5 months ago

$100

Anonymous has matched the donation by Nina Sophie Klett

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$20

Nina Sophie Klett

5 months ago

$20

Anonymous has matched the donation by Gillian Pechey

5 months ago

– Offline donation

$40

Wildlife Queensland

Incredible work to help us reach out goal. Thank you to all those who made this possible. Quollity!

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

We’re just a quoll’s whisker away from making this target. Let’s hope we get there.

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

Amazing work. Thanks so much, QUOLLaborators! So close!

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

So many fantastic, generous wildlife lovers.

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

Amazing! QUOLLaborators, you are doing our quolls proud today. Thanks for caring for Queensland’s at-risk species. It means the world on World Wildlife Day!

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

Wow! We’re setting off running. What a great start. Huge thanks to all of those who’ve donated so far. Much appreciated.

5 months ago

Hume Field Michelle Jeppesen

Good luck with the West Quest guys. We’re got on-going camera surveillance here at Little Bella Nature Refuge in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, historically the northern extent of their range. Last local sighting was 15 years ago. We live in hope! Hume & Michelle

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

Fantastic, Hume & Michelle! And thanks for your kind donation. Unfortunately, our recent efforts from Bellthorpe up to Woondum near Gympie failed to reveal any quolls, but we’ve had some interesting sightings reported west of Ipswich, out past Dalby, and north up to Yarraman. We really hope we spot some spotties out there! From QuollSA studies, w know they’re in Girraween and Sundown, but we want to extend there and further afield west. Good luck at Little Bella. We had a few non-confirmed sightings out Imbil way a few years back, but couldn’t find these cryptic critters with surveying. We hope they’re still out there, laying low.

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

We’re off to a great start! Thanks so much to those who have donated early. It means a lot to Queensland’s endangered quolls.

5 months ago

Wildlife Queensland

Janelle Devery

Karin Cox

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