numbers are a pretty unique animal even
by australian standards
outside of western australia they're not
very well known
they're a small marsupial and they
solely survive
off termites and the sheer number that
they eat you know each day is roughly
about 20
000 so that's pretty impressive
they're endangered um the current
population estimate globally is only a
thousand animals
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so they did have a really large range
across kind of arid and semi-arid
australia all the way from
western new south wales to western
australia but now they're only found
outside of fence reserves in south west
western australia
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mount gibson sanctuary is about four and
a half hours drive from perth we've got
a feral predator-free fenced area
about 7800 hectares the largest
in western australia
so numbats were regionally extinct
from the area of mount gibson so in
january 2016 we started the number
reintroduction program so we source
numbers from
two other awc sanctuaries and also some
captive bred animals from perth zoo
we've released 64 numbers at mount
gibson
and since that time we've been
continually kind of monitoring them with
camera traps
but basically we just want to establish
self-sustaining
genetically viable populations of these
endangered species that
are struggling in other parts of
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australia
it was a really rare occasion to see a
number inside the fenced area and now
it's reasonably common to see a number
driving around so
that's pretty exciting in the scheme of
when you think about
a thousand animals left
you