Conservation Status
The tiger quoll is listed by the IUCN on the Red List of Threatened Species with the status "near threatened". The Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage considers the northern subspecies D. m. gracilis as endangered. This species is vulnerable to decline for a number of reasons. It requires certain climates and habitats, it tends to live in low densities, it likely to compete with introduced predators, requires lots of space and doesn't live very long. The biggest threat to the quoll is habitat destruction. Humans may directly contribute to quoll deaths though persecution, motor collisions and 1080 poisoning. Conservationists are using population monitorings and public education to preserve the species and intent to preserving their habitat and minimize the impacts of 1080 baiting.
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