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The Banyule Sugar Glider Project
Sugar gliders will help us protect our disappearing wildlife corridors
COMPLETED PROJECT
Project details
Suggested by: Jane
Project partner: Montmorency Community Group
Region
Northern Metro
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578 votes received
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Wildlife corridors are critical for the native fauna to survive and thrive, yet due to urban pressures many are disappearing unnoticed. Sugar gliders are a keystone species that will help us map remaining wildlife corridors. This project records glider occupancy in specially designed, strategically placed nesting boxes. The boxes will be made by the local men’s shed and professionally installed in reserves, schools and gardens. Trained residents will check their occupancy regularly and document the findings. Findings will inform a corridor strategy for the Banyule area that Banyule Council and conservation groups can use to protect, maintain and enhance corridors.
Sugar gilders need help. With increasing urban development, the unseen corridors they live and travel in are disappearing. This project invites residents to become stewards for wild life. They can join a monitoring group or host a 'nest box' tree home for gliders in their garden. There are 300 new nest boxes to be placed. Imagine seeing sugar gilders emerge from their home at dusk, gliding past you to their supper.
Monitors will connect with like-minded others in a biannual audit of gliders in boxes. Furthermore, they will know that their findings will help inform a dynamic corridor development strategy.
COMPLETED PROJECT
Project details
Suggested by: Jane
Project partner: Montmorency Community Group
Region
Northern Metro
Budget
Votes
578 votes received
Spread the word
Before participating in Pick My Project please log in or register to YourSAy.
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Best of Luck!
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Planning to have a nest in one of our trees
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Wildlife is pivotal to our environment. Overdevelopment and government and local councils greed is destroying our landscape and that which makes Eltham and surround so special. Rates continue to rise and land sold off to pay debt, even though housing development is getting out of control and generating millions more in income for the council.
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Love ot
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good idea
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Vote Number 1
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All wild life is important-
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I would love to see this come true
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How could you resist protecting such adorable little creatures! And of course, all the other wildlife will benefit from increased awareness and tree planting, and our streetscapes will be beautified. Great project.
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Let’s save any defenceless creatures habitats
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Such an amazing project. These are the kind of projects that give me hope for the local environment we will leave our children
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Fantastic project, very worthwhile
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Such a valuable project run by dedicated volunteers. Great to see sugar gliders returning to Montmorency.
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This is a wonderful project. These little animals rock! Please support this project.
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Great project and excellent lobbying by the local kids. Very happy to support this worthwhile project.
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This project is great. We need to look after our native fauna. My neighbor put a box in and the group said if I got a box put in, they would install it for me. What a bonus!!
I put a box up in August and I had gliders by late September.
I recommend this project to anyone
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Great idea. I am supporting this project by hosting a nesting box
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An exciting and necessary project for our local unseen wildlife. Fingers crossed
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These are delightful and I would love to see more of them in our very special community.
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A very worthwhile project which should be supported
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We already have a box in our garden and would love to see the project grow!
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Welcome to a great project to protect our native wild life
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A very worthwhile project which should be supported
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Jim
16 Sep 2018
Great Project to Help Protect the wild life in our Suburb