Mount Gibson Sanctuary

Um, and then sometimes when I'm not doing that guiding side of things, um, the, the science work that I do helping with the actual, uh, research and surveys is mostly in Southwest Western Australia because I live in Perth, so they just have me, um, helping out the science teams that are nearby here.

There's two sanctuaries that are in the Perth hills, uh, Krackamaya Sanctuary and Peruna Sanctuary, and then also Mount Gibson Sanctuary, which is kind of at the northern end of the Wheatbelt.

Um, so those are the places that I normally go.

Uh, and yeah, um, as you said, I'm definitely not in charge of anything.

That's more than double last year's total, and it's the highest number since the reintroduction of the phascogales into the sanctuary.

The Mount Gibson Sanctuary in WA's Wheatbelt region extends over 7,800 hectares that is fenced to keep out predators and is operated by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

And this is just the latest in a series of big wins at the Mount Gibson Sanctuary, which has reintroduced 10 different types of threatened species back into the sanctuary since 2015, including bandicoots, bilbies and stick rats.

And we'll put a link to a short, really interesting webinar about the work the Conservancy is doing at Mount Gibson into the show notes.

And also, Murray, if there isn't already a child's book about the red-tailed phascogales and all the great work at Mount Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, there really should be.