Terrain Ecology

28/07/2025

08/01/2025

Well done to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy team at Newhaven who have been busy on the ground monitoring the newly reintroduced brush-tailed possum population!

So great to see the possums from Kangaroo Island doing so well in the Tanami Desert !

13/12/2024

Our team has been working with the Tiwi Rangers researching the best methods to control feral cats in recent months. This last week we have removed 7 feral cats from high conservation areas through humane thermal shooting transects.

The stomach contents of one female cat weighing 3.2 kg showed a Rijinga (savanna glider) had just been killed and eaten shortly before the cat was located and removed.

The savanna glider has only recently been described as its own species and is only found in northern australia. This species has dissappeared from 35% of its former habitat and is continuing to decline across the Top End like the majority of other small mammals.

The Tiwi Islands are a stronghold for the savanna glider, but our work is showing this beautiful species is being commonly predated upon by feral cats on the islands and highlights the great need of this feral cat research and management.

Threatened Species Commissioner

22/11/2024

Kangaroo Islanders and all people in SA keep an eye out - we don’t want this species to establish…

🚨 RED ALERT: Common myna at large in Victor Harbor and surrounds. 🚨

There is an immediate call for sightings of this bird, seen earlier this week in Encounter Bay, on the outskirts of Victor Harbor.

The common myna (also known as the Indian myna) is not native to Australia and is an extremely aggressive bird that evicts other native birds from their nests, destroys their eggs and kills their chicks.

It is important to immediately report any sightings via https://www.feralscan.org.au/mynascan/ or by calling the Pest Alert Hotline on 1800 084 881. This information will help us to track down and destroy these birds before they reproduce and become established in South Australia.

Please note that the common myna should not be mistaken for the native noisy miner or yellow-throated miner, which look similar, except the native species have light grey to grey-brown bodies.

👉 Find out more about the common myna:https://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/232022/CommonMyna.pdf

City of Victor Harbor
District Council of Yankalilla
Alexandrina Council
Fleurieu Environment Centre
Willunga Environment Centre
Second Nature Conservancy Inc. - formerly GWLAP
Department of Primary Industries and Regions
Fleurieu Sun
The Times, Victor Harbor
Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board

14/09/2024

Great work Derek and all the Tiwi Rangers for tackling feral cats here on the Tiwi Islands!

Some of the rangers will be working this weekend on the feral cat project. Even though its the weekend, the traps still need to be checked. Here's one of the rangers Derek Puruntatameri with a 5kg feral cat caught in a trap.

26/08/2024

We have had a great day hosting our NT colleagues from the Tiwi Islands and the Pellew Island Archipelago here on Kangaroo Island before we all present our work at the Island Arks Symposium this week.

We went to the beautiful south coast, spending time at Seal Bay Conservation Park, the Flinders Chase National Park and toured the Western River Refuge- a great start to the week!

05/07/2024

The Terrain Ecology team are very excited to be assisting the Tiwi Rangers and Traditional Owners to protect the northern brush-tailed possum and other threatened species from feral cat predation on this very cool project! Exciting times ahead - stay tuned for updates!

16/02/2024

It was an absolute honour to help out the Ngururrpa Rangers with night parrot surveys and targeted feral animal control last week. Great work team 💪🏾💪🦜

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04/01/2024

Four years of post bushfire regeneration here at the Western River Refuge on Kangaroo Island

07/11/2023

Good morning from the Western River Refuge - Kangaroo Island! We are currently surveying for small mammals within the feral cat free exclusion fence and captured this young female Western pygmy possum this morning Australian Wildlife Conservancy