A new study has offered a glimpse of hope for researchers battling to conserve the endangered southern greater glider.
Almost one-third of their habitat was destroyed in the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfiresAlmost one-third of the gliders’ remaining habitat was burnt in the Black Summer bushfires, with the loss of many of the hollow-bearing trees that they used to breed.
In the wake of the bushfires The Australian National University, Greening Australia, and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia teamed up to place more than 200 high-tech thermally appropriate nesting boxes at Glenboc, in Victoria's East Gippsland, and inside the Tallaganda National Park near Braidwood in NSW.
A study using motion-triggered cameras has revealed the animals were quickly moving into the nest boxes, which were installed last year.Research Fellow at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society Kara Youngentob said the species was the largest gliding marsupial at risk of extinction, and the recent findings were a positive step forward in understanding how many were left in the wild.
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