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Saving the Acrobats

Central Greater Glider (Petauroides armillatus)

Central Greater Glider (Petauroides armillatus)

Central Greater Glider (Petauroides armillatus)

Central Greater Glider (Petauroides armillatus)

Central Greater Glider (Petauroides armillatus)

Locky Cooper and his camera - right place at the right time!

  

The endangered Greater Glider has been recorded near Byron Bay, NSW for the first time in over 20 years.

A female and joey were spotted by the Wildbnb Wildlife Habitat team while working on a project for Brunswick Valley Landcare and Landcare Australia.

The extinction risk for Greater Gliders in NSW and Victoria was this month (5 July 2022) upgraded to Endangered (EPBC Act).

Habitat loss from logging, land clearing for agriculture, intensifying bushfires and rising temperatures have combined as major threats and finding the largest gliding possum in eastern Australia has become a rarity. 

Wildbnb’s Locky Cooper said the discovery of Greater Gliders was a significant find for the region and provided some hope that pockets of suitable habitat remained for this threatened species facing extinction.

‘Greater Gliders need big trees with large hollows and are the original real-estate moguls, using up to 20 hollows to shelter and reproduce’ Locky said.

‘To see the female and joey was monumental, and such a rare sight’.

The Gliders came out of a hollow while Locky, and colleague Gregor Nass from Tree Glider Habitat Services, were searching the forest for big trees and suitable glider habitat.

‘We knew that this area had good habitat for large Gliders, and when the female and joey came out of a hollow to watch what we were doing we just couldn’t believe our luck. They calmly sat on a branch and watched us, long enough for me to get the camera out of the ute and capture some incredible images’, Locky said.

‘The Central Greater Glider is now listed as endangered, which means the species is at high risk of extinction in the short-term’.

‘There’s a real sense of urgency to this important work, and the Wildbnb team is motivated more-than-ever to identify ways to protect habitat for Greater Gliders and to better understand, and respond-to, the local challenges impacting their survival’. 

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest - watch the project video

The story of the juvenile Greater Glider find, called Aerie, and info from WIRES Northern Rivers and Dr Bree from the Bryon Bay Wildlife Hospital about how you can help these special animals.

Four Glider Projects

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

WWF SoS Bushfire Recovery Glider project

WWF SoS Bushfire Recovery Glider project

With funding partner WIRES, Wildbnb with the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital, Brunswick Valley Landcare and NPWS, are working to better understand and support Greater Gliders in the Northern Rivers, NSW.

WWF SoS Bushfire Recovery Glider project

WWF SoS Bushfire Recovery Glider project

WWF SoS Bushfire Recovery Glider project

WWF - Australia, Saving our Species (NSW DPE), Southern Cross University, NPWS, Minyumai Aboriginal Land Holding Corporation, Ngunya Jargoon IPA and Wildbnb continue work on the arboreal marsupial bushfire recovery nest box project, now in its third year. 

Landcare Led Glider Conservation project

Wildlife Safe Havens Glider Conservation Project

Wildlife Safe Havens Glider Conservation Project

Funded by the Landcare Led Bushfire Grant and for Brunswick Valley Landcare, Wildbnb conducted monitoring, habitat assessments, Big Tree & Hollow Audits and installed a range of designs of Glider specific artificial hollows across the Byron Shire.

Wildlife Safe Havens Glider Conservation Project

Wildlife Safe Havens Glider Conservation Project

Wildlife Safe Havens Glider Conservation Project

With thanks to Santos Organics and the amazing supporters of the Wildlife Safe Havens crowdfunding campaign, Wildbnb, in partnership with Brunswick Valley Landcare investigates Glider populations in the Bryon Shire.

About Greater Gliders

  

· Greater gliders were once abundant along the east coast, but populations have crashed by 80% in the last 20 years


· Greater Gliders have been recorded living up to 15 years


· Greater gliders are nocturnal, spending their nights foraging on young leaves and flower buds of select eucalypt species in the highest parts of the forest canopy


· During the day, they spend most of their time in tree hollows, with each individual inhabiting up to 20 different dens within their home range


· Greater gliders can glide up to 100 metres in a single glide and can change direction at 90-degree angles mid-flight


· They steer by using their long tails and altering the curvature of their gliding membranes


· Their fur is soft and grows up to 6cm thick, and can range from white to brown to charcoal in a single population


· They’re also the largest species in the ringtail possum family, and the only one that doesn't have a prehensile, grippy tail. But what they lack in grip they make up for in gliding.


· Some Greater Glider’s tails can be twice the length of their body. An adult greater glider can be anywhere between 30 cm from 45 cm long, with their tail extending another 45 cm to 60 cm.


· Baby gliders are born once a year, in late autumn or early winter, and stay in their mother’s pouch until nine months of age


· Greater gliders are completely silent and have no distinctive calls and never chat with one another. It is thought that they communicate through scent-marking. Apart from using their patagia, or gliding membranes, to glide through the air they also use them as a blanket to keep warm during cold nights.


· Scientists recently discovered that there are actually three species of the Greater Glider, not one as previously assumed


· The Central Greater Glider, Petauroides armillatus, which lives in NSW and Victoria’s eastern forests, is the largest of the family.

Locky Cooper pixofnature.com

Wildlife Photographer, passionate conservationist and wildlife carer Locky Cooper documents Wildbnb in action.  Most of the incredible images on this website are Locky's. He calmly studies the fauna and flora, always with a camera in hand, while seamlessly juggling Wildbnb's extensive monitoring technology, conducting surveys, installing habitat and managing huge amounts of data. These incredible Greater Glider images were calmly captured by Locky as the female and joey emerged from a hollow and watched him watching them - pure gold!

NEWS FLASH - WIRES Saving the Acrobats of the Forest Project

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

This little one has recently been separated from its mother and moved into the hollow on 1 March - that day after the extreme weather event and storm that hit hard on the Northern Rivers NSW. We have been watching him for a couple of months ...more to come...

WIRES Project captures a Greater Glider (juvenile)

Threatened Species Research & Recovery Projects

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Yellow-bellied Glider and Greater Glider 

Threatened Species recovery


Connecting on-ground works with rescue (WIRES) and rehabilitation (Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital) efforts.


Providing immediate habitat and conducting extensive monitoring efforts to better understand the challenges impacting Yellow-bellied and Greater Gliders.


In partnership with Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital and Brunswick Valley Landcare and funded through the WIRES National grants Program

Greater Gliders

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Greater Glider Bushfire Recovery Project Byron Shire


NEWS FLASH: As part of this project, Greater Gliders have been recorded in the Byron Shire for the first time in 19 years (BioNet Atlas) - a terrific discovery by Locky, Gregor and the team and a boost to the Glider research projects underway across the Northern Rivers.


Providing immediate habitat and conducting extensive monitoring efforts to better understand the challenges impacting Gliders and other arboreal marsupials including Squirrel Gliders and Brush-tailed Phascogale


In partnership with Brunswick Valley Landcare and funded through the Landcare Bushfire Recovery Grant

Squirrel Gliders

Saving the Acrobats of the Forest

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Arboreal Marsupial Bushfire Recovery Project - Northern Rivers 


In 2020-2021 under the Saving our Species program (SoS), the Worldwide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF) funded the post-fire monitoring of arboreal marsupials at Bundjalung National Park, Tabbimobile Swamp Nature Researce, Minyumai IPS and Ngunya Jargoon IPA - all sites were heavily impacted by the fires.


Crossing the Theshholds - NE NSW


Expanding the project (above) in partnership with SoS, WWF, NPWS, Southern Cross University, Minyumai Land Holding Aboriginal Corporation and Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council - more to come on this exciting initiative soon.


Glossy Black Cockatoos

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Glossies Northern Rivers


Glossy Black-Cockatoo Conservation Strategy Northern Rivers NSW.


This project is proudly supported by WWF’s Regenerate Australia program.


In partnership with the Worldwide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and the Saving our Species Division (SoS) of the NSW Government.



Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservation Project - Byron Shire


Major funding partners are Brunswick Valley Landcare and Santos Organics through Wildlife Safe Havens.


Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservation Project - Cabarita NSW


Private landholder project near the coast - more to come



Large Forest Owls

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Wildlife Safe Havens

Large Forest Owl Conservation Project - Byron Shire


In partnership with Brunswick Valley Landcare and NPWS and funded through Wildlife Safe Havens.


Major funding partner Santos Organics.


Target Species: Powerful, Sooty and Masked Owls


Project includes bioacoustic monitoring using Audio Moths and MALA machine learning

Wildlife Safe Havens

Glossy Black Cockatoos

Wildlife Safe Havens

Wildlife Safe Havens - Byron Shire



In partnership with Brunswick Valley Landcare and engaging businesses, community groups and individuals to support wildlife across the Byron Shire

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Big Tree & Hollow Audit

Big Tree & Hollow Audit

Big Tree & Hollow Audit


Big Tree / Feed Tree & Hollow Audit

Climbing and documenting the Big Trees and scoping the natural available hollow habitat for Large Forest Owls, Glossy Black Cockatoos and Gliders.


Feed Tree Audit

Documenting Allocasuarina and Casuarina feed trees for Glossy Black Cockatoos across the Northern Rivers, NSW.


Hunk-of-Trunk Workshop 

Informed by the Big Tree Audit's scan of hollows, the Hunk-of-Trunk nest boxes replicate the most ideal natural hollows for a range of threatened species.


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