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Scotia Sanctuary is a 650 km 2 (250 sq mi) nature reserve in the south-western plains of New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with South Australia. It is located in the Murray Mallee subregion of the Murray-Darling Depression Bioregion, 150 km (93 mi) south of the city of Broken Hill.
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Daniel Burton chanced upon something extraordinary as he patrolled a fenceline at the rolling red sand dunes of the 65,000-hectare Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary in south-west New South Wales.
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Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary contains one of Australia's largest fox and cat-free areas, home to threatened Bilbies, Numbats, and Bridled Nailtail Wallabies. Home About Us About AWC Our People Reports & Publications Contact us Our Work Science & Land Management Indigenous Partnership Locations Wildlife We Protect Support us Donate
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Scotia possesses Australia's largest mainland area completely free of introduced species (8000 ha). Six numbats were transferred from Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary to the Arid Recovery Reserve in South Australia in November 2005. The population at Scotia was derived from 43 numbats reintroduced to Scotia in 1999 and now stands at 140.
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AWC began its reintroduction program over 25 years ago, when our founder, Martin Copley, fenced foxes and feral cats out of Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary in the hills, east of Perth, Western Australia, and reintroduced Brush-tailed Bettongs (Woylies) and several other threatened species.
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Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary Ecohealth Report 2022 2 2022 weather Scotia occurs on the boundary of the arid and semi-arid climate zones, experiencing hot summers and cold winters. Annual average rainfall is 229 mm (2003-2022; Figure 1), with spring and summer being generally wetter than winter (Figure 2).
🔥 The very endangered Numbat, having a drink at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary in NSW, Australia. r
Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) has implemented an Ecological Health Monitoring Program to measure changes in the status and trend of conservation assets, and threats to those assets, across Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. Metrics from the program are reported in annual Ecohealth Reports and Scorecards. This is the Ecohealth Report for 2020.
As Extinctions Mount in Australia’s Outback, a Sanctuary Offers Hope
But staff and volunteers at AWC's Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary were recently treated to front row seats. AWC ecologist Tali Moyle managed to capture brilliant footage of the exciting fight - a video which has since racked up more than 15 million views on the AWC Facebook page.
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US UK Donate now © Wayne Lawler/AWC Home Locations The Pilliga Representing a landmark collaboration between AWC and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Pilliga project area protects a vital piece of habitat for Australia's threatened species.
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Conservationists have encountered the vulnerable Dusky Hopping Mouse at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary (on Barkandji country) in the Murray-Darling basin, more than 100 km south of where the mouse was last recorded in NSW. The discovery confirms a significant expansion of the species' range in the state. The Dusky Hopping Mouse, considered one of Australia's most attractive rodents, was spotted.
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby fight at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary NSW YouTube
It was a routine, crisp Autumn night out in the field. Daniel Burton, Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) Sanctuary Manager, was conducting feral predator control 10m outside the northern boundary of Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary's (on Barkandji country) 8,000 hectare fenced area when something small and unfamiliar sprinted by his vehicle. Blink once and he might have missed it.
A Bilby emerges from its burrow at AWCs Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary YouTube
Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary, in the mallee country of far western New South Wales, offers a step back in time to an era when Australia's medium-sized marsupials hopped freely across the landscape. Nowadays, these beautiful creatures have all but disappeared in the wild, due to land-clearing and predation by foxes and feral cats.
A Numbat foraging at Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary YouTube
The Yookamurra Sanctuary population was established with 11 individuals sourced from the ZAA population between 1996 and 2001 (Territory Wildlife Park, Arid Zone Research Institute, Monarto Zoo, Western Plains Zoo, Kanyana Wildlife Park) and supplemented with individuals from Scotia Sanctuary (n = 14; 2000-2001). In 2016-2017, 16 animals.
Mulga Snakes fight for dominance at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary YouTube
The AWC sanctuaries - Scotia (NSW), Yookamurra (SA), and Mt Gibson (WA), as well as two NSW government partnership projects in the Pilliga and at Mallee Cliffs National Park, all lie within the regions where Bilbies once thrived but are now locally-extinct. Mallee Cliffs National Park, NSW
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The Sanctuary Mallee Cliffs National Park is located about 30 kilometres from Mildura, in the south-west of NSW. Established as a national park in 1977, Mallee Cliffs covers 57,969 hectares of open grassy plains, spinifex covered dunes, Belah woodlands and old-growth Mallee.
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