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Published on 26 February 2025
An important part of protecting and enhancing biodiversity is to create habitat opportunities for the many indigenous animal species that use the natural environment as home. The Bush Crew has installed a network of nesting boxes throughout Banyule Flats Reserve, providing housing options for Krefft’s Gliders, Ringtail Possums, Brushtail Possums, parrots, ducks, microbats and more.
The nesting boxes are monitored using a camera mounted to a pole. So as not to disturb the nocturnal animals, we try to be as quick as possible, removing the camera as soon as we are able to count the occupants. Our monitoring reveals that the boxes are appreciated, some with entire families of gliders crammed in together. Sometimes, we will discover a nesting box to be neatly lined with fresh leaves, showing us that gliders have made a home there but are currently staying elsewhere.
In a recent twilight walk held by Warringal Conservation Society, local residents gathered to view our nocturnal wildlife in action. They spotted and heard many creatures; gliders emerging from boxes and jumping between trees; a Brushtail Possum in a hollow of a very old tree; microbats; fruit bats; a pair of Lorikeets and a lone wombat running away towards the Birrarung River.