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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’.
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.
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
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.