Grey-headed Flying Fox - Bushfire Rehabilitation
Grey-headed flying fox conservation project to plant winter forage trees across SEQ.
Enhancing winter foraging habitats for grey-headed flying fox.Healthy Land & Water’s Enhancing winter foraging habitats for Grey-headed Flying Fox project is designed to conserve grey-headed flying foxes in South East Queensland.
Activities include planting thousands of new forage trees to improve winter food availability for many native animals, such as the vulnerable grey-headed flying fox, fruit doves, parrots, honeyeaters, possums, and gliders.
The trees were planted at targeted locations across South East Queensland.
The project focused on:
- Enhancing winter foraging habitats for Grey-headed Flying Fox project is designed to conserve grey-headed flying foxes in South East Queensland.
- Activities include planting thousands of new forage trees to improve winter food availability for many native animals, such as the vulnerable grey-headed flying fox, fruit doves, parrots, honeyeaters, possums, and gliders. The trees were planted at targeted locations across South East Queensland.
What we are doing
Planting 15,000 winter foraging trees and plants across SEQ.
Enhancing and expanding grey-headed flying fox habitat.
Measuring success
As a result of the project, winter food availability to support the survival of grey-headed flying fox through will be improved and 15,000 winter forage plants will be re-established across South East Queensland (SEQ).
Why this project is important
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Many of our local native wildlife suffer food shortages during winter as productive habitats typically found on the coastal floodplains, coastal dunes, and inland slopes, are often heavily cleared and poorly conserved, with many now classed as endangered ecosystems. These habitats – such as banksia woodland, paperbark forest, littoral rainforest, lowland subtropical rainforest, and lowland eucalypt forest – provide fruit and flowers during winter for fruit doves, parrots, honeyeaters, possums, gliders, and bats. Even highly mobile species such as the vulnerable Grey-headed Flying fox are under threat from this food shortage. The decline in this fruit and nectar-eating species, which are critical dispersers of seed and pollen, compromises the health of native forests and the resilience of our landscapes. |
Project snapshot
| Project name: | Bushfire Rehabilitation: Grey-headed Flying Fox Project |
| Project contact: | Suzi Moore, Healthy Land & Water |
| Catchment: | South East Queensland |
| Timing: | 2020 - 2023 (Completed) |
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This project is supported by the Australian Government’s Bushfire Recovery Package for wildlife and their habitat. |
Project collaborators
This project is supported by the Australian Government’s Bushfire Recovery Package for wildlife and their habitat.
