At Mt Gibson, ecologists didn’t just open the gates and hope. They redesigned a landscape: securing safe den sites, restoring vegetation, and monitoring every movement with motion-activated cameras. Through those lenses, animals like the now-famous Aang revealed how quickly quolls could adapt when given a genuine chance. Each grainy night-time image, each healthy mother, each new joey is a quiet revolution—proof that with patience and science, Australia’s lost hunters can once again shape their own wild country.
Scientists uncover rare, unusually spiky newborn animals in a protected habitat
