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Albury Conservation Company warmly congratulates The Hon Sussan Ley MP (Member for Farrer and Minister for the Environment) for recently amending the list of threatened species and ecological communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, particularly to include Sloane’s Froglet (Crinia sloanei) – now listed as Endangered. Since 2006, Albury Conservation Company has …

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Year 2 of our Squirrel Glider Monitoring Program across Albury’s major urban growth area has begun. This has been made possible via a three-year financial commitment from Albury City Council. Our ecologist Dylan McWhinney (DM Ecologial) has been busy again over autumn putting up our 30 motion-sensing wildlife cameras at over 60 sites around Thurgoona and …

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We’ve got some exciting news about our camera-equipped nest boxes that were built by Thurgoona Men’s Shed and installed around Thurgoona. We’ve had over 200 photos of Squirrel Gliders using the nest boxes so far, and the quality of the images is improving. The project wouldn’t have been possible without a grant from the Foundation for National …

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Albury Conservation Company is very excited to launch our end-of-2018 donor campaign. This is a great opportunity for interested community members to throw their support behind our organisation to empower us to continue advocating for threatened wildlife in Albury. Our mission is to help maintain viable local populations of threatened species through research, on-ground action and …

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We are delighted to release our first report of our Squirrel Glider Monitoring Program in Thurgoona – Wirlinga. The report relates to the winter 2018 monitoring effort. This is year one of the planned long-term monitoring program. Read the winter 2018 monitoring report HERE. The program has been instigated and funded by Albury Conservation Company. Year …

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Last Friday night saw 40 local nature lovers brave the weather to search for Squirrel Gliders. And they weren’t disappointed! Under the expert guidance of ecologists Dr Damian Michael and Dylan McWhinney, participants took part in stagwatching and spotlighting activities at Bells Travelling Stock Reserve in Table Top. The reserve is considered one of the …

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  Albury Conservation Company, in partnership with Murray Local Land Services and NSW Department of Industry – Lands, brought the Cat Tracker program to Albury as part of the program’s national roll-out. We had a great response to the program with 52 cat owners from Albury and Thurgoona registering interest in volunteering their pet cat …

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After years of planning, in June Albury Conservation Company’s wildlife ecologist Dylan McWhinney began installing motion-sensing cameras at sites across Thurgoona / Wirlinga. The subject of the monitoring program is the iconic and ellusive Squirrel Glider. The photo above is one of the first images captured in the program. Recruited in May, Dylan’s task is to coordinate …

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  A workshop targeting the local development industry was held today, hosted by Albury Conservation Company in partnership with Albury City Council and NSW Department of Industry – Lands. The workshop’s theme was hollow-bearing trees (HBTs) – their local distribution and characteristics, and their management in a landscape becoming increasingly urbanised. 24 people attended the …

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