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A sanctuary at Cradle Mountain
Devils@Cradle is a privately owned, conservation-based breeding sanctuary on Cradle Mountain Road, about 500 metres before the entrance to the World Heritage-listed Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair National Park. It cares for around 80 to 100 animals of three species.


Devils and disease
Devil Facial Tumour Disease, a contagious facial cancer, has cut wild devil numbers by as much as 85 to 90 per cent, the sanctuary says. It keeps around 40 devils for the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program’s insurance population, which numbers about 700 animals across Australia.
Two quolls
In 2010 the sanctuary was a founding member of the Tasmanian Quoll Conservation Program, which keeps an insurance population of about 200 spotted-tailed and eastern quolls. The eastern quoll has not been seen on the mainland since the 1960s and now lives in the wild only in Tasmania.



