Make the Marsupial Mole the Marsupial of the Year!

The Nyangumarta Rangers care for Nyangumarta Warrarn Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) which covers a vast 2.8 million hectares from the desert to the sea in northern Western Australia. It includes the seemingly endless stretches of Eighty Mile Beach, to Ramsar listed wetlands and the rolling sand dunes of the Great Sandy Desert which are home to the Northern Marsupial Mole.

The Marsupial Mole is an elusive creature that the Nyangumarta Rangers say is the hardest of all animals to see. It is tiny, golden haired, blind and swims beneath the desert sand dunes. The Nyangumarta Rangers conduct survey work to detect the Marsupial Mole presence and dig small trenches in sand dunes to monitor their tunnels. The Rangers contribute the information they collect to a national database that helps with the long term conservation of the Marsupial Mole.

The Nyangumarta Rangers are on the frontline efforts to track and protect the Marsupial Mole for future generations. The feral animal control and fire management work that the Nyangumarta Rangers regularly undertake is vital to the protection and survival of the Marsupial Mole and many other Australian desert plants animals.