BellingenNSWThe spotted-tailed or tiger quoll is mainland Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial.
Conservation:
They face significant threats from habitat loss, feral foxes, and dogs.
Threats:
* loss, fragmentation and degradation of suitable quoll habitat through land clearing, change in fire patterns and logging
* loss of potential den sites such as large hollow logs
* foxes and cats which prey on quolls and also compete with them for food
feral cats can also spread diseases which affect quolls
* persecution by humans, who have often blamed quolls for the loss of stock and poultry. >>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/native-animals/native-animal-facts/land-mammals/spotted-tailed-quoll
Quoll in the hen house >>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/publications/protect-your-chooks-and-save-our-quolls
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Image: Spotted-tailed Quoll looking for introduced birds, Dorrigo
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