Project collaboration and objectives
A combination of feral cat and fire control activities are the core of a biodiversity project to improve quoll population and habitat on Nyamal Country. The project, co-designed by the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund (PEOF) team and the Nyamal Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) operates across 3,060km2 of unallocated Crown land adjacent to Purungunya Conservation Estate.
In April 2025, the Minister for Environment granted $1.3 million to NAC to deliver a feral cat management program and fire management program to improve Northern Quoll (Dasyurus Hallucatus) habitat.
Project implementation and monitoring
The four-and-a-half-year program will begin with surveys of the project area focusing on site assessments, baseline fauna surveys and camera traps for feral cats. Further field trips aimed at specific feral cat management training activities, as determined by the surveys, will follow.
Over the remaining three years of the project, NAC will deliver fire management and feral cat management while monitoring the impact on Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES) fauna species.
Ongoing updates and further information
Further updates will be provided as the project advances. Read more about the Pilbara Environmental Offsets Fund and other projects being delivered through the fund.
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