{"id":9160,"date":"2025-01-28T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/forest-resilience-workshops-copy-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:04:08","slug":"mahogany-glider-corridors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/mahogany-glider-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mahogany Glider project"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section bg_image=”https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mahogany-glider-darryl-dickson-feb-2020.jpg” bg_position=”center center” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_stretch=”true” enable_3d=”true” min_height=”500″ js_vertical_centered=”true” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” section_id=”donate” el_class=”donate-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” align=”center”]HELP FOR THREATENED SPECIES[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”67″][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section section_id=”great-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789112768{padding-right: 36px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_left”][mk_padding_divider size=”100″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”15″ visibility=”visible-sm”][mk_padding_divider visibility=”visible-tl”][mk_fancy_title size=”28″ letter_spacing=”4″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” el_class=”terrain-title-2″]NEW MAHOGANY GLIDER PROJECT[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”60″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″ visibility=”visible-nb”][vc_column_text el_class=”sub-head” css=”.vc_custom_1737522175830{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]JANUARY 2025[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1738031789718{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Indigenous ranger Chris Muriata has only ever seen a mahogany glider in the wild once.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo finally see one \u2013 it made me happy,\u2019\u2019 he says. \u201cIt was in vegetation at the southern end of a glider pole array we were monitoring at Lily Creek near Cardwell. We\u2019ve been working on mahogany glider projects for years \u2013 since Cyclone Yasi in 2011 when we put den boxes and cameras in trees. More recently we\u2019ve been part of monitoring programs. Still, to actually see one of these gliders is rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearing vines and woody weeds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris and the rest of the Girringun Indigenous Ranger crew have been working with Terrain NRM to install more cameras \u2013 this time as part of a new mahogany glider program focused on clearing vines and woody weeds from forested areas along creeks in cane land south of Ingham. It will also be building on glider population monitoring work begun four years ago.<\/p>\n

Linking the coast with the foothills<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terrain NRM\u2019s Evizel Seymour says the aim of the latest project is to link coastal patches of mahogany glider habitat to foothills in national parks via vegetated waterway areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this to be a functional corridor for mahogany gliders,\u2019\u2019 she says. \u201cThis is a new project in amongst a tapestry of projects that have helped mahogany gliders by increasing woodland habitat and bridging gaps in habitat through tree-planting projects, installing glider poles at roads and replacing the top two strands of barbed wire in farm fences with barbless wire so gliders don\u2019t get caught up in them.<\/p>\n

Cameras to build on glider monitoring work<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere has also been monitoring work and research to learn more about this species – to better understand the boundaries of mahogany glider habitat, the locations of small populations of gliders and how their genetic health is going.\u201d<\/p>\n

An endangered species<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mahogany gliders are listed as endangered and are only found between Tully and Ollera Creek, north of Townsville. The last population estimate \u2013 1500 to 2000 \u2013 was based on surveys from 1994 to 1996, before the woodlands they live in were battered by Cyclone Yasi.<\/p>\n

Based on early findings from the new glider monitoring program, which is in its third year, the latest project is at Yuruga and Bambaroo south of Ingham, where small populations of mahogany gliders live in narrow strips of woodland bordering waterways and farmland close to Paluma and Halifax Bay national parks.<\/p>\n

Terrain NRM is partnering with Hinchinbrook Shire Council for the weed control and habitat improvement work, and with Girringun and Nywaigi Indigenous Rangers and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service for habitat and glider monitoring work to assess the project\u2019s impact.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789122720{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 34px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_right”][mk_padding_divider size=”206″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1738031803607{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\"\"<\/p>\n

The \u2018Keeping Country Connected for Mahogany Gliders\u2019 project is funded through the Queensland Government\u2019s Threatened Species Recovery Action Grants program.<\/p>\n

Terrain NRM\u2019s Evizel Seymour says the area is in a thin woodland corridor identified by the Mahogany Glider Recovery Team as a priority for habitat connection work.<\/p>\n

Farmers hosting mahogany glider cameras<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cane farmer Serge Fighera is one of three landholders hosting mahogany glider cameras as part of the new weed removal and population monitoring project.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also only ever seen one mahogany glider in the wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always known they\u2019ve been here \u2013 that they\u2019ve been seen. Our kids have been part of a school project to plant trees and put up dens and we\u2019ve done some cleaning up of vines that are choking trees by the creeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to live here too and if there\u2019s some way of helping them, we\u2019re happy to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

About glider poles
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