Species we are protecting

Western Shield aims to protect native species that are vulnerable to predation by foxes and feral cats. These are primarily small- and medium-sized mammals, as well as some ground-nesting birds, small- to medium-sized songbirds and reptiles.

Mammals

• bilby (Macrotis lagotis) 237.75 KB
• black-flanked rock-wallaby (Petrogale lateralis lateralis) 831.72 KB
• boodie or burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur lesueur)
  
• chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii)831.50 KB
• dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis)
  
• djoongari or Shark Bay mouse (Pseudomys fieldi)
  
• Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous tridactylus gilbertii)825.99 KB



• kenngoor or red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura)656.00 KB
• mala or rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus)
  
• marl or western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)
  
• mernine or banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus)
  
• numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)886.75 KB
  
• quenda or southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer) 
• quokka (Setonix brachyurus)869.91 KB
• tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
  
• western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis)1.06 MB
• wopilkara or greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor)
  
• woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi)947.65 KB

Birds

• malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) 765.37 KB
  
• noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus)
• western bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris)
• western ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus flaviventris)

Reptiles

• western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina)829.66 KB
• western spiny-tailed skink (Egernia stokesii badia)

Other, less threatened species benefit from predator control, including:

• common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecular)145.9 KB
• ground nesting birds
• some reptiles such as carpet python (Morelia spilota)
  

Find out more about threatened species and our research into animal conservation.