Arid Recovery

What happens to small mammals when you take cats and foxes out of the desert? Read the results of 26 years of small mammal surveys inside and outside the Reserve, on our website: lnkd.in/gAMP6mae, or the full paper here: lnkd.in/gpVC2U45

Listen to Arid Recovey Chief Executive Kath Tuft and Conservation Land Management Officer Nathan Manders talk to Professor Andrew Lowe on his podcast, the Ecofuturist. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ecofu…

Two good reasons to watch where you’re walking in the desert at night 🕸️🐍

Meet the kowari: a pint-sized predator on the fast track to extinction theconversation.com/meet-the-kowar… via @ConversationEDU

Australia is pretty much one giant sand pit. No surprise then that lots of critters have shovel-like adaptations to dig out a living beneath the soil surface. Take for instance the narrow-banded shovel-nosed snake (Brachyurophis fasciolatus) which can teleport into soil with ease

Welcome, @AridRecovery. ALCA members are united by a vision of a future where nature thrives Australia wide, and through ongoing membership expansion we seek to more fully represent the diversity of private land conservation in Australia.

This week @AridRecovery: Bladder saltbush in fruit after winter rain!!

Ducks in the desert: transient oases in a sunburnt country - new bog by our ecologist ⁦@GenevieveLHayes⁩ aridrecovery.org.au/ducks-in-the-d…

Phenomenal week demonstrating for @UofA_SET second year ecology students @AridRecovery - overwhelming consensus of the most they’ve ever learnt at uni. Thanks again to Arid for hosting such a great camp to kick start these young ecologists careers! 🦎🐭🪶

Online Trap Alert Forum - 4th April 10:30 AEST. Hear from people using trap alerts to manage #feralcats & monitor wildlife & a discussion on how you might use them in your own projects. For more info email: gillian.basnett@invasives.com.au to register: eventbrite.com.au/e/trap-alert-s….

Top people helping out on the survey this year, as always. 26 years of data now from pitfall trapping small reptiles & mammals at ⁦@AridRecovery⁩

Young reptiles out in force this year, breeding off good seasons. This is a baby netted dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis) ⁦@AridRecovery⁩

This inappropriate goanna shat on the bench and everted his hemipenes in front of everybody. On #InternationalWomen’sDay no less! Pitfall trapping @ ⁦@AridRecovery⁩

Those cheeks! 😘 Plains mouse during annual pitfall trapping ⁦@AridRecovery⁩ Bumper year for the threatened species in the cat-free reserve after good seasons

Dozens of threatened Australian species are back from the brink, but many are reliant on fenced-off safe havens. 💬 "We should not rely on [safe havens] to take species off the threatened list," write @katherinemoseby (@UNSW) + John Read (@UniofAdelaide). bit.ly/41yFf2z

New podcast! @BiolSocSA interviews Arid Recovery Chief Executive @KatherineTuft on desert ecosystems & threatened species… and what it takes to get hard-won wins in conservation. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bss…

Still a long road to real recovery for Australia’s threatened species. Safe havens are great, but just a stop-gap. Important to recognise in the debate about de-listing species. @AridRecovery co-founders @KatherineMoseby & John Read in @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/amp/threatened…

@BarbyWT Thanks Barb!

Seeing your work on Australian Wild Odyssey. Love ya @AridRecovery

Good to have you here Pat 🙂