Back from the ashes: Recovering Gilbert’s Potoroo at Two Peoples Bay
Talk by Dr Tony Friend, Research Associate, DBCA
Gilbert’s potoroo is a critically endangered marsupial thought extinct until 1994, when a tiny group of around 30 individuals was found at Two Peoples Bay, near Albany. Through years of intensive work by scientists, land managers and volunteers, the situation had improved greatly by 2012, with two new “insurance” populations and over 130 potoroos in existence.
In November 2015, however, a lightning storm lit a bushfire at Two Peoples Bay that burnt 90% of the potoroos’ habitat there and most of the potoroos. Tony Friend is a wildlife scientist who has been involved in this conservation story since 1999 and will describe the progress that has been made recently to restore this important potoroo population.
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