00:02Fox monitoring is ramping up at Booterie National Park.
00:05It's all good.
00:07Six foxes have been tagged with GPS tracking collars on a site now dotted with 70 camera traps.
00:14Every 15 minutes we get a fix on where that fox is so we can actually piece their movement every
00:2015 minutes.
00:20Incredible data to understand how foxes are using the landscape.
00:25Despite decades of control efforts, foxes remain a key threat to animals like quolls and bandicoots,
00:32once extinct at the park, now slowly being reintroduced.
00:36Funded by the National Environment Science Program, the research will help inform future control measures.
00:43We've learnt a lot more about their adaptability, about the habitat they use.
00:47What we don't understand here is in this environment where we've got less animals,
00:52how are they using the beaches, how are they using the trails.
00:55We'll be more confident about what's going on with the foxes
00:59and we'll be able to relate that with what's going on with the wildlife we're trying to protect.
01:05This predator proof fence behind me was installed two years ago
01:09to give a reintroduced group of eastern quolls the best chance of survival.
01:14There's hopes the species will one day thrive outside the fence.
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01:19We're focusing on keeping quolls alive.
01:22We're working with the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community, with the Bowery Ranges,
01:27about potentially bringing back some of the creatures that have disappeared more recently.
01:32A cunning way of keeping nature in balance.
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