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Found a beautiful Wildlife Sanctuary on the fringes of Perth yesterday

As soon as I received my negative for Covid result Gusman went exploring.
Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary is a 20 sq km predator free fenced Nature reserve at Gidgegannup, 50 km North East of Perth.
Paruna Sanctuary is an important site for conservation in the Avon-Wheatbelt both in it’s own right and because it forms a wildlife corridor between two national parks.
The sanctuary is home to a number of significant species including the threatened Chuditch, Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo, and small mammals such as the Honey Possum which lives in Paruna’s diverse heathlands, and the Western Pygmy Possum.
Most of the small-medium sized mammals have been lost from the Avon Wheatbelt, as a result of cats and foxes.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy and the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife have worked together across Paruna and adjacent national parks to implement a regional feral animal control program, which has enabled the successful reintroduction of Black-flanked Rock-wallabies and Tammar Wallabies to the area.
The Black-flanked Rock-wallaby reintroduction is particularly significant, as it was here in the Avon Valley that the species was first recorded in the 1840’s.
Five species have been translocated to Paruna, the Black-flanked Rock-wallaby, Tammar Wallaby, Woylie, Quenda and Brushtail Possum.
Although I never saw any during my visit, I am assured they are there.
Such a beautiful peaceful place. I know I will return sometime this week and spend more hours there, camera ready, maybe a pic of a Tammar Wallaby.
I have seen one of these in the wild. Down at Dwellingup.
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4meAndyou · F
The really dry, desert scrub reminds me of parts of Nebraska.
CantExplain · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou Interesting comment. I can see the similarities w/ the Nebraska Sand Hills/eastern Wyoming
4meAndyou · F
@CantExplain The place where I was born was within 50 miles of Laramie Peak in Wyoming. 😊
CantExplain · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou Ha, I used to live in Laramie! Miss the beauty of the Snowy Range
4meAndyou · F
@CantExplain If we traveled up to the top of a local land feature, where I was born, we could see Laramie peak in the distance, sort of misty. My cousin and her mother used to drive there to buy school clothes every year...not too many big stores where I was born...🤣.
CantExplain · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou Yup, I understand having to travel to find what you want. We used to drive to Fort Collins to eat at good restaurants...
4meAndyou · F
@CantExplain People here have no idea...we thought nothing of traveling 300 miles...the roads were so straight. I still remember driving with my grandfather and he had a governor on his car...65 mph...and he used to laugh and say he never saw anyone keep it right on the needle like that...🤣. Meantime traffic was whizzing past at 80...🤣
CantExplain · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou 65 mph! That was slow by I-80 standards! I remember I-80 being closed more often than being open due to white-out blizzards. I live in Kansas now and still drive some open country
4meAndyou · F
@CantExplain Yeah, drove me nuts to have to drive that slow...but he had just bought the car...and the posted speed limit was 65...🤣...and I was driving with my learner's permit to spell my mother and grandfather. 🤣