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25.01.2022 Trialling various methods to assess occupancy in existing tree hollows, including the drone and the thermal imaging camera - signs of a nest in this one, but no-one home!

25.01.2022 Even in the most severely burnt sites in East Gippsland, there are promising signs of life - regrowth, pollinators, skinks and snakes, and birds of prey! <3 #BushfireRecoveryAU

25.01.2022 After overcoming the usual (for 2020!) technical difficulties of remote presenting, it was great to talk to the students of Orbost Secondary School about our East Gippsland grant project with Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, and help them with their planning their awesome nest box project!

23.01.2022 More charismatic nocturnal species - the Australian Owlet-nightjar, Aegotheles cristatus. This one was very curious as to what we doing! (c) Jo Isaac

22.01.2022 A short-beaked echidna, snuffling about in the Yarra Ranges National Park..another terrestrial species that utilises tree hollows as shelter <3 (c) Jo Isaac

21.01.2022 Exciting monitoring trip to Whitehorse City Council's Campbells Croft Reserve to check out introduced cavities - Eastern Rosella chicks!!

20.01.2022 After some site recon in some very burnt areas north of Orbost, it was nice to visit Ewing Morass Wildlife Reserve which mostly survived the fires - spotting some signs of spring!

19.01.2022 Gorgeous image from our Lead Botanist Bradley Jenner - Hovea asperifolia subsp. asperifolia - Mountain Hovea <3

18.01.2022 Thank you. Our gratitude and deference.

18.01.2022 Successful day re-surveying occupation in carved hollows in association with Whitehorse City Council - we were surprised to find a Common Brushtail Possums squished into one! But also lots of Sugar Gliders and signs of birds beginning to bring in nesting material <3

17.01.2022 Our specialist ecology and arborist team are back in East Gippy this week installing habitat hollows for species affected by the 2020 bushfires as part of our grant activity for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment The image shows arborist Calum installing a medium sized arboreal chainsaw hollow aimed at target species including Greater Gliders, Yellow-Bellied Gliders and Gang Gang Cockatoos. Pic taken by our arborist Hayden Watt

16.01.2022 Our team has finally been able to get on ground and start planning and implementing our bushfire recovery project in East Gippsland, with a grant from the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.....we found encouraging signs of life on the fire margins near Mallacoota <3

11.01.2022 Very exciting to find some occupants in our introduced cavities as part of monitoring our East Gippsland works - grant activities for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment - only a matter of time before it's a target species! <3 #BushfireRecoveryAU

11.01.2022 More candid camera images from Day 2 of surveying carved hollow occupation in Vermont with Whitehorse City Council- clearly Sugar Gliders are fans of the chainsaw created habitat! This time we also found an Eastern Ringtail Possum, and some King Parrots showing interest, too! Images (c) Treetec

10.01.2022 Another (unfortunately) endangered species for threatened species week and biodiversity month... The native smoky mouse, or Konoom (Pseudomys fumeus) is primarily threatened by habitat loss and predation by cats and foxes...these charming native rodents live in communal burrows and have a varied diet which changes seasonally. This elusive individual was captured on a camera deployed by our ecology team...this was the single clear image allowing identification - but that smoky... grey fur gives it away! Image (C) DELWP, used with permission.

09.01.2022 As part of our grant activities in fire affected East Gippsland, our team has been creating smaller terrestrial chainsaw cavities of different designs suitable for skinks - in particular two target species Southern Water Skink and Glossy Grass Skink. This is the first time such artificial refuges have been trialled, so this photo from our monitoring team is really very exciting indeed! A skink (Metallic skink - Carinascincus metallicus) using one of our created skink refuges! <3 Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment #BushfireRecoveryAU #chainsawsforgood #introducedrefuge

08.01.2022 Home sweet home. For the first time, human-made tree cavities are being trialled as refuges for priority animal species, affected by the Black Summer bushfires ...in East Gippsland and known to live in fallen logs and timber. Thanks to the Australian Government’s Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program, Treetec is busy creating refuges for animals including the Smoky mouse, Broad-toothed rat, Southern water skink and Glossy grass skink. The trusty Treetec team is also researching how effective artificial tree hollows are, how targeted animals respond to them, how they compare to natural hollows and nest boxes and if artificially created hollows impact the health of the host tree. Look closely at the image for exciting progress! Treetec

07.01.2022 My trusty volunteer teenager noticed this Black Rock Skink using a natural log hollow for thermoregulation and protection in Ewing Morass Wildlife Reserve while we were monitoring cavities last week. We have now installed more than 200 terrestrial chainsaw cavities, including nearly 150 lizard refuges, aimed at benefitting a variety of fire impacted priority species in East Gippsland. Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment #BushfireRecoveryAU (c) Jo Isaac

06.01.2022 Not a threatened species, but iconic and photogenic nonetheless - Eastern ringtail possums are pretty curious and pretty cute! (c) Jo Isaac

04.01.2022 Happy International Volunteer Day! Volunteers will be a crucial part of helping monitor our chainsaw cavities installed as part of our #BushfireRecoveryAU grant work for Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

03.01.2022 In the aftermath of the 201920 Black Summer fires, the Minderoo Foundation established the Fire Fund recently renamed the Fire and Flood Resilience Initiativ...e and committed $70 million to response, recovery and long-term resilience. Over 40 partners, including the Australian Government, have collaborated with the Minderoo Foundation on the initiative. This effort, which involves communities, industry, government, philanthropy and the research sector is a great example of cross-sector collaboration benefitting Australia as a whole. The Minderoo Foundation has released its Resilience Blueprint, a plan for Australia to be the global leader in fire and flood resilience by 2025. You can see the blueprint at: https://www.minderoo.org/fire-and-flood-resilience : Top New growth in bushland on January 17, 2020 in Rappville Australia. Photo credit: Nathan Edwards/Getty images. Bottom left Minderoo’s Fire & Flood Resilience Blueprint Bottom right Kelly Donithan looks for injured wildlife in burnt out eucalypt plantation on Kangaroo Island January 15, 2020. Photo credit: Peter Parks/ AFP via Getty images.

02.01.2022 The ecology team got their hands on this little cutie last week! An Eastern Pygmy Possum - this species, an important pollinator, is unfortunately now considered as near threatened in Victoria.