Scenic Rim WIldlife in Running Creek | Non-profit organisation

Scenic Rim WIldlife

Locality: Running Creek

Phone: +61 7 5544 1283

Address: 1770 Running Creek Road, 4287 Running Creek, QLD, Australia

Website: http://scenicrim.wildlife.org.au/

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14.05.2022 https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeQueensland/videos/975998926449578/ 60 years since WPSQ was founded: Qld's longest-running conservation association

04.05.2022 At Tullamore Farm, lower end of Duck Creek Rd, Kerry Valley. Australia's smallest glider. Feathertail. Bill's video shows the feather-shaped tail as well as the cute little face and the gliding membrane.

25.01.2022 An afternoon of corridor planting, this time at Innis Plain

24.01.2022 I think quite a few locals could identify with this https://thenewdaily.com.au//06/australian-wildlife-carers/

23.01.2022 Nice mention of our project in Beaudesert Times. We'll be back in Kooralbyn for the Cardigras markets Sunday 26th Sep and then at the Boonah market 10th October to discuss the wildlife corridors, and the provision of free wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs, tree-guards, fencing material, water, working bees etc. to landowners willing to fill in some gaps in wildlife movement corridors. https://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au//market-day-in-the-va/

22.01.2022 Queensland's wonderful biodiversity is what inspired us to move here over four decades ago, but its rate of clearing is comparable to Indonesia and Brazil, and many of the Protected Areas are seldom or never visited by rangers, so not as protected as they should be.

22.01.2022 Quoll webinar https://wildlife.org.au/queenslands-quolls-webinar/

21.01.2022 Interesting meeting on koalas and a local conservation project coming very soon in northwestern Scenic Rim https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/learn-about-koalas-the-flin

19.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/3607940809260929

19.01.2022 520 young trees, shrubs and ground covers collected today for the wildlife corridors

18.01.2022 https://biolinksalliance.org.au/greater-glider-and-squirrel

18.01.2022 Thirty seven million birds, mammals and reptiles face death or displacement over the next decade in eastern Australia if the nation’s flagship conservation law continues to not be adequately enforced. Help us end Australia's extinction crisis https://wwfau.org/end-extinction

15.01.2022 This involves Scenic Rim as well as Logan - bushland and farmland along the whole length of the Logan River. The more folk we can get out there recording information on how koalas use the landscape the better, so we can refine plans for their conservation management. This free training workshop will be a good start for anyone interested.

14.01.2022 So, we have something pretty exciting to share! A few weeks ago, I asked Mudgee people to photograph anything that looked like a native bee in their backyard. T...he fabulous Heidi Duncan of Bocoble did just that and sent me a pic today. I sent it onto a bee scientist in WA to confirm what Heidi and I hoped it was (see pic below). What you're looking at is one of the most endangered native bees in Australia - the metallic green carpenter bee Xylocopa aeratus . They used to inhabit lower QLD, all through NSW, VIC, SA and Kangaroo Island. They only nest in 2 types of trees : dead flower stalks of grass trees, and dead banksia. They are now extinct in most of these areas, except for the eastern strip of NSW from within the Great Dividing Range to the coast, and the Western part of Kangaroo Island. Then KI burned in the Jan 2020 bushfires, and 150 conservation nesting sites burned with almost no habitat left. KI conservationists were going to try to repopulate their endangered bee population with NSW metallic carpenter bees, but some coastal and blue mountains NSW habitat burned in the fires too. **UPDATE: according to Australia's Living Atlas there have been sporadic sightings inland over 50 years, but nothing conclusive and many sightings unconfirmed. No confirmed sightings (except in the last few days!) have been made in the Mudgee Region yet as far as we can tell. What does this mean? It means that this bee does seem to live inland, outside of the east coast of NSW, but noone knows the density or regularity of these populations. Like any wild animal, the described & mapped habitat is their general preferred habitat. DPI Orange has confirmed the possibility that the Mudgee Region could participate in major national conservation projects to help save this bee after the bushfires. They are one of the few bees in Australia who can "buzz pollinate" certain native plants, whose only method of reproduction relies on these types of bees. Congrats to Heidi, and we'll keep you posted with updates Please follow our page and keep sending in native bee pics from the Mudgee Region , so we can start creating native bee havens in our town ! #metalliccarpenterbee

13.01.2022 Collecting fencing wire and star pickets for protecting young corridor plants from cattle. Norco Beaudesert

13.01.2022 In case anyone is trying to call us (I can still get email, and FB Messenger, though our satellite connection)

12.01.2022 https://perfectpets.com.au//wildlife-in-suburban-australia

12.01.2022 Happy World Wildlife Day. We are so lucky to live in a region with abundant and diverse wildlife

10.01.2022 If coming to the Kooralbyn Cardigras today, drop by our Wildlife Corridors display to say hello

10.01.2022 I haven't yet identified this grasshopper but he sure has good camouflage. Running Creek valley

09.01.2022 Chair Ronda Green's book "Understanding Australia's Wildlife is now available on Kindle . https://www.amazon.com.au/Understanding-Austr//ref=sr_1_1

08.01.2022 Nice little green tree snake in our carport in Running Creek valley today

08.01.2022 Sandra has donated some lovely wildlife paintings in the past to raffle for Scenic Rim Wildlife, and done some painting at a couple of our events, letting us watch her techniques.

08.01.2022 Note the bit about in-breeding. That's one of the reasons we need wildlife corridors, and not only for koalas but many other species, some of which are more endangered but just not so famous.

07.01.2022 Anyone trying to reach me by email, the Scenic Rim mail is refusing to show up today - hope it rights itself soon

06.01.2022 We've been worried about our own platypus at Running Creek this year. There are three sites along our creek they use for nesting burrows, and by the time they settle on one mid-year we can usually be pretty sure of seeing them there regularly until Christmas, but this year they haven't appeared at all. https://thenewdaily.com.au//platypus-bushfire-impact-thre/

05.01.2022 Wouldn't it be good to see Australia doing this when new freeways are planned? "The Delhi-Dehradun Expressway will be the country’s first such highway where there will be a 12 km long elevated corridor for the protection of wildlife. " https://www.moneycontrol.com//delhi-dehradun-expressway-to

04.01.2022 This includes some of our Scenic Rim rainforests such as the ones in sheltered parts of Mt Barney https://www.abc.net.au//dire-outlook-for-gondwana/12949954

04.01.2022 If you missed this series of talks by glider experts you can watch them here https://www.youtube.com/playlist

03.01.2022 Scroll through "Living Local" for an article on our wildlife corridors project https://www.google.com/url

03.01.2022 Tomorrow is threatened species day. Recalling last year's dreadful fires, here are some of the Scenic Rim's species most in need of protection from the effects of fire. https://scenicrim.wildlife.org.au/wildli/wildlife-and-fire/

03.01.2022 Disturbing stats from WeNaturalist (a global NGO for nature lovers: 571 species of plants have been found to be extinct in the last 250 years. Global biodiversity conservation costs $76 billion annually.... Only around 3,900 tigers are left in the entire world. Approximately 33% of all sharks in the world’s oceans are at near-extinction levels. Around 25% of all assessed mammals are at the risk of extinction. The rate of extinction in the 21st century is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. Plants are going extinct at almost 500 times the natural rate. The population of polar bears is expected to fall by 30% by 2050. 27% of all the assessed species in the world are endangered. Between 1904 and 1967, over 350,000 whales were killed, according to the endangered species statistics. Between 200 and 2,000 extinctions are occurring every year. Human activities threaten over 40% of all amphibians.

02.01.2022 This is open to all, not just WTA members

01.01.2022 We're at the Kooralbyn market this morning.m promoting the wildlife corridors. Come and say hello if you're around.

01.01.2022 We found a nice jewel spider while planting for the corridor project in Mt Alford yesterday. The species has a whole genus to itself and is found only in Australia.