In September 2026, AWC captured 48 red-tailed phascogales at Mt Gibson — more than double the 28 caught in 2024, and the most since reintroduction nine years ago inside 7,800 hectares
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A red-tailed phascogale is the kind of animal you can spend a career not seeing. It is small, fast, and wary — a carnivorous marsupial built for slipping out of sight — and ecologists generally count themselves lucky to handle a handful in a survey season. So the number that came out of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt this month is worth sitting with: in the 2026 survey at Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, field teams captured 48 red-tailed phascogales, mo
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