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Jackie Courtenay

@jcourtenay.bsky.social

Conservation biologist, writer/editor, environmental artist #SciComm #GilbertsPotoroo

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Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oops the link is wrong in the post below… The correct link is www.containersforchange.com.au/wa/container...

Container Eligibility | Check For The 10¢ Mark | Containers for Change WA

It's easy to save your containers from landfill so they can live another life — Just check for the 10¢ mark! If you're unsure, use our Container Eligibility Checker.

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Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group@gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exciting news from #Containers4Change! As of July 1st the 10c refund scheme has been expanded to include lots of extra containers. See attached picture & www.containersforchange.com.au/.../containe.... for the full list. If you’d like to donate your refund to GPAG, our member number is C10289767 🙏

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you couldn’t be in Albany in May for Tony Friend’s talk at the WA Museum (Great Southern) the video link is here visit.museum.wa.gov.au/episodes/con... or use the QR code in the image below. Huge thanks to Museum staff esp Rachel Angelini & South Coast NRM’s Brontë Van Helden for all their help 😊

Blue slide with white writing with the heading “Video Now Available” followed by the title of Tony Friend’s talk at the Museum of the Great Southern on May 12th and a QR code to link to the video which also has a transcript. The talk title is “Back from the Ashes: Recovering Gilbert’s Potoroo at Two Peoples Bay”. The event was funded by the Australian Government and South Coast Natural Resource Management, a member of the Regional Delivery Partners Panel. https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/episodes/conversations-museum/13/1-7

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

**REMINDER: UPCOMING FREE EVENT MAY 12** Join us at the @wamuseum.bsky.social (Great Southern Co-op Building) on May 12th. Doors open at 10:00am to start at 10:30am sharp. Hope to see you there but if you can’t make it in person the event will be videoed & available ~2wks after the event.

The WA Museum advertisement for the curatorial event at the WA Museum (Great Southern Co-op building) on May 12th. Doors open at 10am for a 1030 am sharp start. The speaker will be Tony Friend (Research Associate, DBCA) and the title of the talk is “Back from the ashes: Recovering Gilbert’s Potoroo at Two Peoples Bay”. The advertisement is on a black background with white writing and a picture of a Gilbert’s Potoroo.

An image of the abstract for the talk.

Gilbert’s Potoroo is a critically endangered marsupial thought extinct until 1994, when a tiny group of around 30 individuals was found at Two Peoples Bay, near Albany. Through years of intensive work by scientist, land managers and volunteers, the situation had improved greatly by 2012, with two new “insurance” populations and over 130 potoroos in existence.

In November 2015, however, a lightning storm lit a bushfire at Two Peoples Bay that burnt 90% of the potoroos’ habitat there and most of the potorooos. Tony Friend is a wildlife scientist who has been involved in this conservation story since 1999 and will describe the progress that has been made recently to restore this important potoroo population.

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

**UPCOMING FREE EVENT** Hope you can join us for this terrific talk by Dr Tony Friend about recovery of #gilbertspotoroo at #TwoPeoplesBay after the catastrophic 2015 fire When: May 12, 10:00am for start at 10:30am sharp Where: WA Museum (Great Southern) Co-op Building, Albany WA

A photograph on a blue background of Tony Friend, Research Associate at DBCA/WA Parks & Wildlife holding a Gilbert’s Potoroo in the middle of the image. Above the photograph in white writing is the information about the event contained in the post with the addition of Tea/coffee available for a gold coin donation. Underneath the photograph is a banner with the logos of the Australian Government, South Coast NRM, Museum of the Great Southern, Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group & Dept of Biodiversity, Conservation & Attractions and text acknowledging funding.

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#citizenscience has so many benefits (physical & mental) for participants & for scientific research. It helps build scientific literacy in the community & can expand the scope of data collection while giving people a sense of achievement #WorldHealthDay #citsci theconversation.com/my-head-feel...

‘My head feels clearer’: how citizen science can improve people’s health

Citizen science offers people something simple but powerful: a reason to step outside, pay attention, and reconnect with the living world around them.

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Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do you think #GilbertsPotoroo looks like a rat? People sometimes send us photos of Black Rats wondering if they are Gilbert’s Potoroo or see pictures & say “Yuck, it looks like a rat”. And Potoroos & Bettongs are sometimes known as Rat-Kangaroos… #WorldRatDay #NotARat @bhl-au.bsky.social

The original lithograph and description of Gilbert’s Potoroo ‘Hypsiprymnus gilberti’ in Gould’s Mammals of Australia. Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia.

The original description of Gilbert’s Rat-Kangaroo (Potoroo) in Gould’s Mammals of Australia 1863..

Gilbert’s Potoroo photograph. Copyright Dick Walker/GPAG

Black Rat photograph. Copyright Jiri Lochman

John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Is Australia’s native foods industry missing an ingredient? ‘It’s not just about products, it’s about people, story and respect’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Is Australia’s native foods industry missing an ingredient? ‘It’s not just about products, it’s about people, story and respect’

Interest in bush foods is booming but some say a lack of Indigenous leadership and ‘black cladding’ plague the business

theguardian.com

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today is #childrensbookday & to celebrate we’re highlighting 2 of our favourite #GilbertsPotoroo themed books. It’s so exciting to see Gilbert’s Potoroo increasingly making it into kids literature & the stories being nominated for awards &/or featuring in teaching notes etc #conservationeducation

Cover of One Potoroo: A Story of Survival by Penny Jaye, illustrated by Alicia Rogerson showing a Gilbert’s Potoroo emerging from a handling bag surrounded by flowers.

Cover of The Spectacular Spencer Gray by Deb Fitzpatrick showing a boy riding his bicycle through the bush at night with a Gilbert’s Potoroo’s head poking out of his backpack.

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Interestingly GPAG’s 2019 WA State NRM grant on #GilbertsPotoroo genetics in collab w/ DBCA found that despite the tiny popn (~120) genetic diversity is similar to Long-nosed Potoroos (popn ~75,000!!). Results presented at GPAG’s 2024 South Coast TS Forum library.dbca.wa.gov.au/FullTextFile...

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Love this journal Frontiers for Young Minds that publishes articles by scientists for kids, peer reviewed by kids. Such a great way to build science literacy in the next generation. Check out this Quah et al article kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... on genetics & threatened sp reintroductions 1/

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy #InternationalWomensDay & thank you to all the amazing women - especially our GPAG volunteers - who have worked for decades trying to help save #GilbertsPotoroo. And to the female Potoroos literally carrying the species forward ❤️. 📷 by Jiri Lochman

A female Gilbert’s Potoroo being followed by her subadult joey. #InternationalWomensDay
Photo by Jiri Lochman

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On #WorldWildlifeDay we’re celebrating the survival of #GilbertsPotoroo, a beautiful little #LazarusSpecies rediscovered in 1994 after being thought extinct since 1909. There are only ~120-130 left. You can help by joining GPAG or donating via our website www.potoroo.org #CriticallyEndangered

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Did you know the secret ingredient in the peanut butter & oatmeal bait used to entice the #criticallyendangered #GilbertsPotoroo into a cage trap is pistachio nut oil? Apparently its sweet smell is like the scent of the truffle-like fungi that make up over 90% of the Potoroo's diet #PistachioDay

A pile of pistachio nuts showing their green and purple colours. Photo by by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@joannakosinska

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On this #LoveYourPetDay this research is a great reminder to keep kitty safe, happy and contained to prolong their life while also prolonging the lives of native wildlife! Win-Win 😍

Pacific Conservation Biology@pacificconsbio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Time to paws and reflect: Responsible cat care is the purr-fect move Gillian Bryant and @drbrucewebber.bsky.social from @wafcwg.bsky.social looked at past, current and planned efforts in Western Australia to improve responsible cat ownership #OpenAccess in #PacificConsBio buff.ly/p4chswW

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy New Year to all our members, volunteers, donors, supporters, social media followers & general #GilbertsPotoroo lovers! Thank you all for your help & support for GPAG & Gilbert’s Potoroo in 2025 & wishing you all a happy & healthy year in 2026. With all best wishes from the GPAG Team

Photo of Gilbert’s Potoroo by Jiri Lochman sitting upright on a log, looking to its right. The photo is surrounded by a black frame with the words Happy New Year 2026 in white text above the photo.

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group @gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Chapter 3: What’s the Big Deal? Why save a small fungi eater? With a diet of >90% native truffles, #GilbertsPotoroo is one of the 2 most fungi-dependent mammals in the world. Its digging helps aerate soil, improves water penetration & it spreads fungi spores that are critical for vegetation health.

Jackie Courtenay @jcourtenay.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Incredibly privileged to have been part of the #GilbertsPotoroo journey almost since the beginning (April 1996) and to be sharing my life with @lwhisson.bsky.social who actually was there on “rediscovery day”. #LostAndFound #LazarusSpecies #CriticallyEndangered #ThreatenedSpecies

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group@gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Chapter 2: Lost for 100 yrs then found #GilbertsPotoroo was rediscovered at #TwoPeoplesBay on Dec 1st 1994, having last been recorded in the 1870s & thought extinct since 1909. Much has happened in the past nearly 31 years, a lot of ups & downs & hard work by many people, but it’s still hanging on

Jackie Courtenay @jcourtenay.bsky.social · last yr.

So good to see this video series starting to make its way in the world (and not an entirely inappropriate thing to share for my first post on BlueSky as well 🤔😄). Well done @jdelgadoesteban.bsky.social - we got there!!

Gilbert's Potoroo Action Group@gilbertspotoroo.bsky.social · last yr.

In honour of #ThreatenedSpeciesDay we’re delighted to share both our first post on BlueSky & the first of a series of videos that together tell the story of the beautiful & #criticallyendangered #GilbertsPotoroo. Please follow along to see a new chapter each week 😊 #threatenedspecies #lostandfound