At the time of writing, Rob Brewster, director of Rewilding Australia, was unreachable. He was deep in Booderee National Park on the NSW south coast, monitoring a small population of eastern quolls that were first released in 2018. There, Rob and his team were happy to find long-term survivors, as well as a new litter of young pups. It’s great news for the programme. The spotted, medium-sized marsupials were once found all over south-eastern Australia but now survive only in Tasmania. Rewilding Australia is looking to change that by spearheading the first initiative to reintroduce the eastern quoll to Australia’s mainland.
It’s not the only programme Rob and his
