Qualla: Faure Island https://qualla.com/faure-island en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Faure Island https://qualla.com/faure-island Faure Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. When the conservationists arrived on Faure Island in 1999, they began by counting sheep, and then removing them, more than 3,400 in all. The island had carried livestock for nearly a century, and feral cats hunted its dunes. Of the native mammals that once lived here, not one remained. But buried in the soil lay sub-fossil bones, the brittle evidence of small marsupials that had vanished generations earlier. Those bones were a blueprint. They told the new owners exactly which animals belonged here, and so began the slow work of building one of the most important wildlife arks in Western Australia: 58 square kilometres of low red sandplain, ringed by the turquoise shallows of Shark Bay, remade as a refuge for the nearly lost.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/qe2u-faure-island-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Faure Island: A Geographer's Island https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. Faure Island wears a French name, like so much of Shark Bay. Nicolas Baudin's expedition charted these waters in 1801, and Baudin named the island for Pierre Faure, the geographer aboard the corvette Le Naturaliste. The land itself is modest and low, its highest point just 26 met...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/qe2u-faure-island-a-geographers-island.mp3 0:06 2 full Faure Island: Sheep, Cats, and a Clean Slate https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. For most of the twentieth century, from 1905 onward, the Hoult family of Denham ran sheep and goats here, holding a pastoral lease that traced back to the 1870s. Livestock and the cats that followed European settlement did what they did across so much of arid Australia: they holl...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/qe2u-faure-island-sheep-cats-and-a-clean-slate.mp3 0:06 3 full Faure Island: Bringing the Lost Home https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. Guided by those sub-fossil bones, the conservancy began reintroducing the mammals that had once lived here. The boodie, a burrowing bettong that builds warrens like a rabbit. The Shark Bay mouse, a soft-furred native rodent. The banded hare-wallaby, a small striped marsupial that...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/qe2u-faure-island-bringing-the-lost-home.mp3 0:06 4 full Faure Island: An Island of Birds https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. The wildlife above the waterline matters just as much as the mammals below it. Faure is a vital breeding ground for seabirds and a crucial stopover for migratory waders travelling the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, the great aerial highway that links Siberia to the Australian co...

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