Having focussed on conservation genetics and molecular ecology of NHW
for my Ph.D. research, Andrea Taylor is now a member of the Recovery
Team charged with developing and implementing management strategies
for this highly endangered and unique Australian mammal.
Her role is primarily in the application of genetic markers in a
variety of ways to more fully understand the threats to the sole
remaining population of the species, and to non-invasively monitor
population trends. Among the recent highlights of this ongoing
research program has been the development and use of technologies to
estimate the abundance of NHW based on DNA profiling to identify
individual wombats from hair samples collected on sticky tape at
burrow entrances. Refer to her full publications list for further
details of this research program, which has been generously supported
by the Marsupial CRC, Australian Geographic, the Wombat Foundation and
the Chicago Zoological Society.
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Northern
Hairy-Nosed Wombat
