Project Complete – and an exciting new chapter for Numbats

Thanks to your generosity, dedication and belief in our work, we have successfully completed the Numbat Monitoring Project in the Dryandra Woordland National Park. This long-term study has been an important step in understanding how to protect one of Australia's most endangered marsupials - and it's already shaping future conservation action.

Over the past year, we monitored 22 wild Numbats in Dryandra Woodland using tiny radio collars, allowing us to track their movements, study their habitat preferences, and sadly, investigate the causes of any losses. By carefully examining collars and remains for tooth, claw or beak marks, and using DNA testing, we were able to identify the predators responsible for each death.

This work has also provided rare and valuable insight into juvenile dispersal – where young Numbats set off on their own – and confirmed that Dryandra’s integrated invasive predator control program remains among the most intensive and effective in Australia.

A new chapter begins – Knowing Numbats
Because of the importance of this work, we are thrilled to announce that we are moving straight into a new phase: the Knowing Numbats project. This extension will deepen Numbat monitoring, improve predator control strategies, particularly for feral cats, and keep us one step ahead of emerging threats. Your continued support will allow us to collect even more detail movement, survival, and breeding data to keep Dryandra's Numbat population strong.

For more on our continuyed commitment to support Numbats, visit the project page on the website.