{"id":9339,"date":"2025-05-08T23:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:21:17","slug":"mahoganyglidercamera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/mahoganyglidercamera\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahogany gliders on camera"},"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”]SAVING 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″]MAHOGANY GLIDERS ON CAMERA…[\/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_1746684747213{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]11\u00a0 MAY 2025[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1747023214103{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The results are in from wildlife cameras in creekside trees on cane land south of Ingham \u2013 and the good news is that mahogany gliders have been recorded.<\/p>\n

In amongst several thousand images, two mahogany gliders were seen in trees in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n

Terrain NRM\u2019s Evizel Seymour says the cameras were up for six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw one mahogany glider at about 3am on four or five nights. It was active in a thin corridor of trees bordering a creek and cane land, a place where they haven\u2019t been recorded on camera before. We saw another mahogany glider once, at a creekside area further north.\u201d<\/p>\n

Importance of riparian vegetation as wildlife corridors<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trees are part of a thin corridor connecting the ranges with the coast in the Bambaroo-Yuruga area, and installing cameras was the first stage in a project to improve mahogany glider habitat in that area.<\/p>\n

Terrain NRM is partnering with Hinchinbrook Shire Council to clear vines and woody weeds from creekside vegetation to create a functional green corridor for mahogany gliders. These elusive marsupials are only found between Tully and Ollera Creek, north of Townsville, and they are listed as endangered. Their favourite kind of habitat, broad-leafed tea tree woodlands, is also listed as endangered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project follows monitoring work and research in the last few years to learn more about mahogany gliders, the boundaries of their habitat, where the remaining small populations live, how their genetic health is going and how we can best help them to survive,\u2019\u2019 Terrain NRM\u2019s Evizel Seymour says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe area we are working in now is known to have a small population of mahogany gliders, thanks to the monitoring work over the last three years. That\u2019s exciting because it\u2019s largely cane land and because it\u2019s close to Paluma and Halifax Bay national parks. If we can better link areas it\u2019ll be a big help to these gliders.\u201d[\/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_1746747381220{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\"\"[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1746747410226{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Weed control and habitat improvement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The weed control and habitat improvement work will begin in coming months. The wildlife cameras, installed in partnership with Girringun and Nywaigi Indigenous Rangers and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, are being used to assess the project\u2019s impact and to add to population monitoring data.<\/p>\n

Evizel says earlier projects have focused on tree-planting on private land to bridge gaps in habitat or expand woodland, on the installation of glider poles at roads and the replacement of barbed wire with wildlife-friendly wire on the top strand of graziers\u2019 fences so that gliders don\u2019t get snared when they\u2019re moving between isolated trees in paddocks.<\/p>\n

Wildlife cameras will go up again at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Keeping Country Connected for Mahogany Gliders\u2019 project is funded through the Queensland Government\u2019s Threatened Species Recovery Action Grants program.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section el_class=”grean-btn-sec” sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”47″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_button dimension=”outline” url=”https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/what-we-do\/biodiversity\/cassowary-credit-scheme\/” align=”right” el_class=”green-btn” outline_skin=”custom” outline_active_color=”#175137″ outline_active_text_color=”#ffffff” outline_hover_bg_color=”#175137″ outline_hover_color=”#ffffff”]Read More[\/mk_button][mk_padding_divider size=”100″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section section_id=”great-1-blog” sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”105″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_fancy_title size=”28″ letter_spacing=”4″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” align=”right” el_class=”terrain-title”]RELATED NEWS[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider visibility=”hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false” id=”post_grid_filter_1″][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”grid_greate_3″ css=”.vc_custom_1743711316392{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

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