For a week each spring approximately 140 people record every animal they spot to help researchers understand the health of a population threatened by cats and foxesIn backyards across the suburban fringe of Perth,people beget been excitedly checking for cone-shaped divots in preparation for the annual spring quenda count, which is in its third year.
Quendas are a subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot, and a small,ground-dwelling marsupial that has been hunted to critically low numbers by cats and foxes in south-eastern Australia. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com