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The Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered Species Ltd (FAME) is a national non-profit organisation that supports projects designed to save Australia's most endangered animals and plants from extinction. It is the only organisation dedicated solely to saving endangered Australian species.

FAME works with like-minded organisations, communities, wildlife authorities and private land owners on projects around Australia that are specifically designed to save endangered species from extinction. FAME also supports environmental education programmes that provide future generations of Australians with a greater understanding of the uniqueness of Australian wildlife and the Australian environment.

History
Foundation for Australia's Most Endangered Species was established in 1993 as the Earth Sanctuaries Foundation (ESF) by Dr John Wamsley. From 1993-2001 FAME worked in partnership with Earth Sanctuaries Ltd (ESL) to create and rehabilitate protected areas and restore endangered species such as Numbats, Boodies (Burrowing Bettongs), Bridled Nailtail Wallabies, Malleefowl and Mainland Mala to areas where they had been locally extinct, in some cases for up to 100 years. During this period FAME also funded wildlife surveys and program of research and education.

In 2002 FAME adopted the principle objective of only funding projects that would increase the chances of survival of at least one endangered Australian species, and changed its legal name to Foundation for Australian Most Endangered Species.

Governance
FAME has small team of paid staff based in South Australia and an independent Board of Directors from around Australia who oversee the governance of the organisation. FAME is a registered tax-deductible charity in Australia and is listed on the Federal Government's Register of Environmental Organisations

Projects
Since its inception in 1993, FAME has helped bring back more than 20 Australian species from the brink of extinction. FAME prioritises projects where native species can live naturally in protected areas that, so far as possible, include the original biodiversity of the area and where introduced competitors and predators are excluded or significantly controlled.

FAME’s current projects are:

Bringing back the Western Quoll
FAME is supporting a project to bring back the endangered Western Quoll to arid and semi-arid Australia, starting in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. The return of the Western Quoll, a predator at the top of the food chain, will help restore the balance of species and impact rabbit numbers.

Saving the Tasmanian Devil
FAME is supporting Devil Ark in New South Wales’s Hunter Valley, where the largest mainland insurance population of healthy endangered Tasmanian Devils has been established.

Keeping endangered mammals safe at Wadderin Sanctuary
FAME is helping to bring back endangered mammals, like the Red-tailed Phascogale and the Woylie, to the feral-free Wadderin Sanctuary in the central wheat belt of Western Australia.

Protecting endangered grassland mammals at Mt Rothwell Sanctuary
FAME is helping to keep endangered grassland species safe in feral-free conditions at Mt Rothwell Sanctuary in Victoria.

Preventing the spread of the cane toad
FAME is collaborating with Sydney University and others on a project to stop the spread of the introduced cane toad on its southern front.