Wildlife Queensland Cassowary Coast - Hinchinbrook Branch

Community Planting Day – a great day Feb 7th

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Mon, 09 May 2016 05:27:00 +0000

The Glenbora – Bairds Creek Corridor has been on our wish list since 2004 – it is wonderful to see it actually happening.

Mahogany Glider Tree Planting this morning at Glen Bora – Kennedy – Thanks to all who came along this morning – it was a very hot tropical morning but wonderful to see some new faces in the crowd (thanks to the gals from Seafarm) and all of the usual team too… good to have so many helpers along for our first planting day of 2016…. Bloodwoods , Bluegums, grasstrees, albizia…all the local food plants for our Mahogany Gliders followed by morning rea at Vivia Cafe in beautiful Cardwell by the Sea. Good start to 2016! Thanks for coming

Feb 2016

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Mon, 09 May 2016 05:18:37 +0000

Helping restore, reconnect and improve the connections for the mahogany glider… Without trees the mahogany glider cant move thru the landscape.. corridors between patches of remaining habitat are essential for them to access food, find a mate, disperse their young and keep the gene pool healthy…. We are very pleased to have the assistance of our green army teams in the corridor projects for the endangered mahogany glider.

FEB 2016 Community planting day Feb 7th – Glenbora Mahogany glider Corridor Project

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Mon, 09 May 2016 05:16:22 +0000

January 2016 Mahogany Glider added to 2020 Priority Species list

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Mon, 09 May 2016 05:13:32 +0000

Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews…

How do you get things done? Start by prioritising. At the launch of last year’s Threatened Species Strategy, Environment Minister Greg Hunt MP committed to securing the future of 20 threatened mammal and 20 threatened bird species by 2020, and named over half of those on the priority list. Today, he has announced the rest.

The latest additions to the list are: mahogany glider, eastern quoll, wes…tern ringtail possum, woylie, black-footed rock-wallaby, Gilbert’s potoroo, northern hopping-mouse, Christmas Island flying-fox, cassowary, swift parrot, eastern curlew, Australasian bittern, malleefowl, south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo, white-throated grasswren and golden-shouldered parrot. The Christmas Island frigatebird also gets special attention, with work starting on a new action plan for the species. All of these birds and mammals will benefit from targeted interventions to bring them back from the brink. So too will the many, many other species that share their habitat and face common threats.

It’s been a big job, working out how we could make the most of the resources available for #threatenedspecies. I’d like to extend my thanks to everyone who shared their expertise in finalising the list. Special mention goes to my informal advisers, Threatened Species Scientific Committee members, Threatened Species Recovery Hub researchers, the fantastic staff in my office and the department’s wildlife division, as well as the many community groups that have advocated so passionately for their local species. Thanks too to Zoos Victoria‘s #WerribeeZoo – a great wildlife champion – for hosting today’s announcements.

Find out more about the priority species here:
Mammals:
https://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/factsheet-threatened-species-strategy-action-plan-2015-16-20-mammals-by-2020
Birds:
https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/threatened-species-strategy-action-plan-2015-16-20-birds-2020

December 2015 Kennedy State School visit to Glenbora Mahogany Glider project site

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Sat, 07 May 2016 03:49:14 +0000

Great afternoon out with all the students at Kennedy State School – and wonderful for them to have access to the Glenbora Waterhole area again. It has been a site, close to the school that has been used for education for many years – today Suzie Smith, Judy Murphy and Daryl Dickson spent the afternoon talking to the students about our exciting mahogany glider corridor project, the wildlife friendly fencing and planned glider pole crossing for Kennedy Creek Road.

more pictures of a great afternoon out with the students of Kennedy State School – talking with little “Gregory” the mahogany glider… he told them all about his habitat and what he needs to keep him safe…

Sept 2015 Woodland Reveg Signs installed

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Sat, 07 May 2016 03:41:50 +0000

Sept 24 2015 Connecting The Dots Mahogany Glider Project

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Sat, 07 May 2016 03:30:54 +0000

Thankyou Gregory Andrews – Threatened Species Commissioner We have had a wonderful day in mahogany Glider Country with Gregory and Erin visiting our Mahogany Glider project Sites – thanks to all our partners and stakeholders for taking part in what has been a terrific and informative day – Wildlife Qld Cassowary Coast – Hinchinbrook, Terrain,, the Green Army, Girringun & Mungalla Rangers, QPWS, CCRC, WTMA, Sam at Stone River and Paul Buste and Staff at the Cardwell Golf Links

SEPT 2015 Fencing completed Glenbora Mahogany Glider Corridor Project

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Sat, 07 May 2016 03:20:45 +0000

Another step forward on the Glenbora – Bairds Creek Mahogany Glider Corridor Project. Wildlife Qld Cassowary Coast – Hinchinbrook Branch with our TO partners on site today. So many positives – the track access is on the way and the cattle exclusion fencing is well on the way to being finished. This is creating work for locals and better connections for the endangered mahogany glider… great to see!

OCT 2015Bairds Creek-Glenbora Mahogany Glider Corridor

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Fri, 06 May 2016 23:50:41 +0000

Nick and his team of CVA International Volunteer have spent a week in Cardwell working with Wildlife Qld – HQ Plantation Glenbora-Bairds Creek Mahogany Glider Corridor Project at Kennedy. They have been collecting all the rubbish and plastics from the site, preparing the first section for planting – digging the holes and spreading the mulch…GREAT WORK Thankyou to all the volunteers from the USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK – we hope you enjoyed Cardwell and the beautiful Kennedy Valley and learnt a little about our endangered mahogany glider. Hope to see you down this way again soon Nick!
This Mahogany Glider Corridor project is a 3yr Qld Govt funded project thru Everyone’s Environment Grants – Grant Partners are Wildlife Qld & Girringun

Sept 2015 Threatened Species Commission visits mahogany glider country

Mungarru Mahogany Glider — Fri, 06 May 2016 23:44:03 +0000

We are extremely happy to have had the opportunity to spend time with the federal government’s Threatened Species Commissioner during his visit to the wet tropics.

We have had a lot of fun but all the fun has surrounded our very serious work for an endangered species that really does sit at the brink. We have an opportunity right now to make a difference for the mahogany glider – if we don’t act now and get some serious work done the problems facing the glider may well be too hard to deal with…but right now we know it is possible and we are making a difference. It is hugely valuable to be given the time to explain, on the ground in mahogany glider country, the issues facing this species…and we are so grateful that the federal government has taken this initiative. It is so good to be able explain the situation facing the endangered mahogany glider and how we are all working to achieve a positive outcome. We have a wonderful team and it has been tremendous to do this with our TO partners at Girringun and Mungalla, Terrain NRM, CCRC, QPWS, EHP, WTMA, HQPlantations, Powerlink, our cane farmers and grazier partners…

Now after a recovery day today it will be …back to out to the on ground projects next week, “Jacquie and the team will be back to “connecting the dots” at the Stone River corridor with Ellie and the Green Army Team – our branch of Wildlife Queensland will be starting to prepare for planting at the Glenbora- Bairds Creek mahogany glider corridor, while Dr Steve Jackson is completing sub-population and priority corridor maps and Rich at EHP works to get our new draft recovery plan ready for approval….