In September 2024 the critically endangered smoky mouse was the first species to be reintroduced into the area. Since then, 79 smoky mice have been released and ecologists recently detected the first ...

Ecologists were looking for a different endangered species, the smoky mouse, when they set up trail cameras throughout Kosciuszko National Park in 2024.

Ecologists in Australia flipped through thousands of photos taken on trail cameras at a national park. They were looking for photos of an at-risk mouse species — but noticed several images of a ...

Ecologists with the New South Wales (NSW) threatened species team set up trail cameras throughout Kosciuszko National Park “to survey for the critically endangered smoky mouse,” the NSW Office ...

Detected entirely by chance In 2024, New South Wales threatened species ecologists Fred Ford and Martin Schulz set about looking for an entirely different species, the endangered smoky mouse.

In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, “visitors are afraid of venomous snakes” according to Bill Stiver, the park’s former supervisory wildlife biologist.

The smoky mouse reintroduction is a collaboration between the NPWS, the NSW Government’s Saving our Species (SoS) program, the National Threatened Species Institute and University of Canberra. “This ...

Smoky mouse populations are so isolated and in such low numbers that the animals struggle to find mates that are not genetically related to them. However, a Canberra program is helping to change that.