The Western Shores Pygmy Possum Project has been successful in its application for funds to purchase 2 new cameras through the Northern Beaches Community Grants (Environment) 2020/21 program.
This will bump up the number of wildlife cameras is operation to 4 and allow residents more time with a camera to discover the best possible surveillance spots in and around the wildlife corridors, both within the property boundaries, and the park land on the edge their properties.
More cameras also means more photos of the small marsupials – Pygmy Possums, Feathertail Gliders and Antechinus in the main – that frequent our Spotted Gum Forest on the edge of Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park.
Alongside our targeted species the cameras also pick up Sugar Gliders, birds, wallabies and the odd unwanted rat.
The Project Team hope to use the increase in cameras will allow the team to collect meaningful data about the presence and health of the local populations.
The grant was made possible by the agreement of the South West Lovett Bay Coastcare group to sponsor our application as the grant required funding to be given to an incorporated body. Many thanks to SWLB Coastcare for stepping up to assist us to further our goals; and to the Northern Beaches Council for the further support of this project.
More news once we get the paperwork bedded down!