Team Kowari

It’s 5:00am on a Wednesday in the first week of May, and three teams of Arid Recovery ecologists, Team Kowari researchers and volunteers are climbing into work vehicles – wearing beanies and carrying travel mugs of hot drinks. Datasheets, calico bags, wool, duct tape, dog biscuits and hessian sacks are strewn around the utes. It’s […]

There are an estimated 1200 kowaris left in the wild, restricted to fragmented refuge populations in north-east South Australia and south-west Queensland. Facing ongoing threats from predation, habitat degradation and climate change, kowaris were uplisted from Vulnerable to Endangered under the EPBC Act in 2023. Although identified as being at-risk of local extinction, prior to