Who’s hanging in our Bush?

Some clever camera work by Council’s Bushcare team has confirmed there’s a very special connection between our volunteers who care for the bush and local wildlife.

Volunteers play a huge role in protecting our bushland with close to 60 sites across our region, which help create a vital habitat for our native flora and fauna.

While our volunteers are now happily back on site, there was a recent pause to their important work due to COVID-19.

During this period, Council’s Bushcare staff installed wildlife cameras at various sites to capture the native animals visiting their sites; they shared the images with volunteers giving them a bit of a ‘bushland fix’. 

Sally White, who has been a volunteer for the last 18 years at Dundundra Falls Reserve said the camera shots increased their group’s awareness of the wildlife living on the site.

“I was delighted to see that all of our hard work over the years is reaping benefits not only for the native plant life, but as precious habitat for our many animals,” Ms White said.

Two cameras were positioned at each site over a two-week period, with ten sites filmed to date.

Over just a few months, the wildlife sightings captured on film were considerable, with shots of the Common Ringtail and Brushtail Possums, Long-nosed Bandicoots, White-cheeked Honeyeaters and Swamp Wallabies, as well as the threatened Pygmy Possum.

Given the project’s success, the team have decided to extend it for the foreseeable future.

For more information on native animals.