The Big Numbat – Williams

Williams, Western Australia, Australia

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A giant fibreglass numbat play-sculpture at Lions Park in Williams.

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The Big Numbat – Williams

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Site-level location · 33.0301° S, 116.8788° E

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The community raised forty-six thousand dollars, and the last six thousand of it came from a quiz night.

The Shire of Williams describes the Lions Park attraction as a three-metre life-like fibreglass giant numbat, linked to awareness of the numbat population in the nearby Dryandra Woodland. Project Numbat's own account records the fundraising: a successful quiz night raising just over six thousand dollars as the final tranche, the sculpture then well underway and due for installation by mid-July, and the total of forty-six thousand raised with support from the Williams community and its local council.

That figure is worth dwelling on. Forty-six thousand dollars is a serious amount for a town of a few hundred people to raise for a sculpture, and it was assembled in increments through community fundraising rather than granted.

The animal deserves it. The numbat is Western Australia's faunal emblem and one of the most endangered mammals in Australia – a small, striped, termite-eating marsupial, entirely diurnal, reduced by foxes and cats to a handful of populations. Dryandra Woodland, a short drive from Williams, is one of the last strongholds, and the sculpture exists explicitly to raise awareness of it.

So this is not a novelty. It is a conservation object funded by a rural community for a species most Australians have never seen and many could not name.

Williams sits on the Albany Highway in the Wheatbelt south-east of Perth, and Lions Park is public ground.

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The Shire of Williams currently describes the Lions Park attraction as a 3 m life-like fibreglass GIANT NUMBAT and links it to awareness of the nearby Dryandra Woodland numbat population.

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Public park attraction with toilets, picnic facilities and sealed parking for cars, buses, caravans and trailers. Use Lions Park rather than a guessed sculpture pin.

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Project Numbat – Williams Community Numbat

Project Numbat · recorded 2026-08-23

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Shire of Williams – Parks, Playgrounds & Reserves

Shire of Williams · recorded 2026-08-23

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Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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