Scotia Sanctuary - Programs

Bridled Nailtail Wallaby Scotia sanctuary

At Scotia, AWC aims both to protect existing wildlife, and to address the ongoing extinction of Australia’s mammals. To this end key management objectives are:

• Establishment of Australia’s largest feral free area (>12,000 ha).
• Reintroduction into feral free area of all species that persist in other parts of Australia and once occurred in the area but are now regionally extinct.
• Development and implementation of a fire management strategy with the primary objective of the protection of biodiversity, especially of old-growth mallee communities and the threatened fauna dependent on them (eg black-eared miner).
• Removal of feral animals (especially foxes, cats, rabbits and goats) across the whole property, with a view to reintroducing mammals outside feral free enclosure.
• Development of broadscale biodiversity monitoring program to determine effectiveness of AWC’s conservation management.
• Accurately map Scotia’s vegetation communities.