Animals we are protecting

Western Shield focuses on native animals most vulnerable to feral cat and fox predation. These are primarily small and medium sized mammals, as well as some ground-nesting birds 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_profile.pdf765.37 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.