Lost for 100 Years… Then Found

Описание: Chapter 2: Lost for 100 Years… then found

Gilbert’s Potoroo had not been recorded since the 1870s and had been believed to be extinct since 1909 when it suddenly reappeared at Two Peoples Bay in 1994. Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group’s now Deputy Chair, Leigh Whisson, was working at Two Peoples Bay at the time and was only the third person (after then PhD student Elizabeth Sinclair and her volunteer Adrian Wayne) to see the newly captured animal - and to help with the first preliminary steps to try to identify it…

The rediscovery sent shockwaves of excitement through the conservation community. How could such a relatively large animal (adults weigh between 700-1000g, about the size of a rabbit) have stayed hidden in such an intensively researched Nature Reserve? Much has happened in the nearly 31 years since the rediscovery but despite many ups and downs, and a lot of hard work by a lot of committed people, the species is thankfully still hanging on…

Gilbert’s Potoroo is the rarest marsupial on the planet surviving only in a hidden corner of Western Australia. This is their story.

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This video is part of a collaboration between Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group and South Coast NRM, working together with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) to protect Australia’s most endangered marsupial.

The videos, including the original music compositions were created by SpaceWhale Studio.

Thank you to everyone who contributed
Matilda Johnson (Narration)
Dr Elizabeth Sinclair - UWA Oceans Institute
Dr Bronte Van Helden - South Coast Natural Resource Management
Dr Jackie Courtenay - Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group
Leigh Whisson - Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group
Dr Sarah Comer - DBCA Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia
Dr Tony Friend - DBCA WA Parks and Wildlife
Steve Toole - DBCA WA Parks and Wildlife
Jennene Rigg - Riggs Australia

This video was jointly funded by the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust and South Coast NRM, a member of the Commonwealth Regional Delivery Partners Panel, and Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group (GPAG).