Australian Quoll Conservancy

06/10/2026

THE WAIT IS OVER!

We’re delighted to announce that Quoll-ity Breeding will premiere nationally on SBS On Demand from 1 December 2026.

SBS increasingly brings new documentaries to audiences through SBS On Demand ahead of their scheduled television broadcasts, allowing Australians to watch when and where it suits them.

Filmed entirely in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland, Quoll-ity Breeding takes viewers into the rarely seen world of the endangered Wet Tropics spotted-tailed quoll — an elusive, predominantly nocturnal species and one of Australia’s most challenging native mammals to observe and film in the wild.

The documentary captures intimate behaviour and research rarely witnessed, drawing on years of patient field observation, non-invasive research and wildlife filmmaking.

Available nationally on SBS On Demand from 1 December 2026, with television broadcasts on SBS and NITV to follow.

Eleven years after Quolls: Fast & Furious was broadcast nationally, the spotted-tailed quolls are returning to Australian screens.

ALBERTO VALE & JUNE VALE
Directors/Producers
WildCAM Australia®

22/09/2026

Surprised? Don't be; there's a lot of work to do, and the conversation is now open.

How well do you know our native animals? New polling by DemosAU and commissioned by Invasive Species Council has revealed a startling gap in what Australians know about our own wildlife. While almost everyone recognised kangaroos and wombats as native, round 1 in 3 people across NSW, Queensland and....

19/09/2026

You are the King 👑

Yep. A real plant. Any guesses?

King Ferns (Angiopteris evecta) are the biggest ferns in the world, with fronds reaching up to 8m in length. They can be found in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. They don't like to dry out, so you mostly see them near creeks and other permanently wet areas.

🔗 This giant is also found on Lot 2, a property we are currently working to protect: https://lot2.savethedaintree.org/

📷️ Steven Nowakowski

18/09/2026

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07/09/2026

Field research certainly produces memorable moments. Some researchers end up self-locked in toilets. Others try to drive over fallen trees without first considering the very important scientific measurement known as vehicle ground clearance—only to end up firmly stuck and requiring rescue by QPWS Rangers. Me? I prefer to take two essential pieces of field equipment everywhere I go: knowledge and common sense. They’ve served me pretty well so far, especially on this epic day when I ended up rescuing a motorcyclist who had tried exactly the same experiment—riding over a fallen tree without quite enough clearance. His motorcycle became temporarily incorporated into the ecosystem. Sometimes the most sophisticated piece of equipment you can take into the bush is the one between your ears. 😄

07/09/2026

This is what happens when science thinks outside the box. The same non-invasive methodology can be readily applied to endangered species of interest.
This is what happens when science thinks outside the box. Non-invasive methodologies can deliver valuable scientific data while placing animal welfare at the centre of wildlife research. These approaches can be readily adapted to endangered species and other wildlife of conservation interest, reducing the need for capture, handling and unnecessary disturbance while still providing reliable information to support conservation decisions. The Australian Quoll Conservancy continues to lead by example, developing and applying practical non-invasive techniques that combine sound science, innovative field research and the highest standards of animal welfare. The goal is simple: learn as much as we can about wildlife while interfering with their natural lives as little as possible.

06/09/2026

11 YEARS LATER… THE STORY CONTINUES.
Now, 11 years later, I’m proud to introduce the next chapter.
QUOLL-ITY BREEDING — Premiering soon on Australian television.
This film is more than a sequel. It represents more than a decade of persistence in the field, thousands of hours of observation, remote-camera monitoring and the development of non-invasive research methods designed to study quolls while allowing them to remain wild and undisturbed.
For the Australian Quoll Conservancy and WildCAM Australia, those 11 years have revealed extraordinary insights into breeding, motherhood, movement and the lives of a new generation of quolls in North Queensland’s Wet Tropics.
Much has changed since our first film.
Our commitment to these animals has not.
Eleven years. Two films. One continuing story of survival.
Quoll-ity Breeding.
Premiering soon on Australian television.


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11 YEARS LATER… THE STORY CONTINUES.

Now, 11 years later, I’m proud to introduce the next chapter.

QUOLL-ITY BREEDING — Premiering soon on Australian television.
This film is more than a sequel. It represents more than a decade of persistence in the field, thousands of hours of observation, remote-camera monitoring and the development of non-invasive research methods designed to study quolls while allowing them to remain wild and undisturbed.
For the Australian Quoll Conservancy and WildCAM Australia, those 11 years have revealed extraordinary insights into breeding, motherhood, movement and the lives of a new generation of quolls in North Queensland’s Wet Tropics.
Much has changed since our first film.
Our commitment to these animals has not.

Eleven years. Two films. One continuing story of survival.

Quoll-ity Breeding.
Premiering soon on Australian television.

31/08/2026

Although this image has been superimposed to recreate different moments in mere minutes, the behaviour behind it is very real.

Quolls have an uncanny ability to sneak up beside you without you ever knowing they are there. And this certainly isn’t the first time it has happened.

After years in the field, I’ve become convinced that sometimes we’re not monitoring the quolls — the quolls are monitoring us.

They learn remarkably quickly. They recognise the sound of your vehicle arriving, they know your scent, and they seem to know when you’re moving through their territory. You can spend hours carefully positioning cameras, checking equipment and looking for signs of them, completely unaware that somewhere nearby a quoll may already be quietly checking you out.

Which raises the amusing question in this photograph:

“Who’s monitoring who?”

And perhaps an even more interesting one. After repeated encounters, do they learn more than simply “a human is here”? Can they distinguish familiar vehicle sounds, familiar scents and familiar routines—and ultimately work out whether the two-legged animal wandering around their forest is friend or foe?

Judging by how comfortably some of them sneak around us, I suspect they made their decision about us a long time ago.

We just weren’t there when they held the meeting. 😂

30/08/2026

😂 Spotted a spotted-tailed quoll lately?

Apparently this one was spotted conducting some highly sophisticated field research:

“Is that coffee? What brand? And more importantly… is there anything edible in it?”

Nothing says shy, elusive wild carnivore quite like standing on the camp table inspecting your travel mug.

I think the quoll may have been studying the humans. 😂🐾

This column is prompted by a very special visitor to our campsite on a recent short holiday to some of…

27/08/2026

It’s not just misleading advertising — it’s practically a quoll accommodation guarantee. 😂

If I booked a stay based on that advertising, I’d be checking in and immediately asking reception: “Right, where’s my spotted-tailed quoll?”

The same image appears on the Save the Daintree website, and it is also commercially available as an iStock stock image. So unless this particular quoll has an impressive career in tourism promotion, it certainly doesn’t demonstrate that it was photographed at the advertised property.

And those repeated scratch marks on the tree trunk? They look suspiciously like a well-used quoll runway — potentially suggesting a captive, habituated or lured animal rather than a lucky once-in-a-lifetime wild encounter.

Moral of the story: advertise the room, advertise the rainforest, advertise the view — but perhaps don’t advertise the resident quoll unless the little bloke is actually on the payroll. 😂
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Tourism Tropical North Queensland Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

Spotted something special? 👀 The spotted-tailed quoll is Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial, and seeing one in the wild is something most people only dream about.

Found in pockets of rainforest across the Atherton Tablelands, these elusive native predators play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy. They're agile climbers, mostly nocturnal, and unfortunately listed as endangered in Queensland.

This incredible sighting was captured at Hitching Rail Retreat. Have you ever been lucky enough to spot a quoll?

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