Growing habitat for threatened species
Western Pygmy Possums in the Charleston Conservation Park will benefit from Kersbrook Landcare Group’s Growing for Bushfire Recovery project funded by a Hawke’s Brewing Landcare Threatened Species Bushfire Grant
The Western Pygmy Possum (a Regionally Critically Endangered Species), the Ringtail Possum and the Brush Tail Possum along with 76 recorded bird species lost their valuable habitat when the Cudelee Creek fire devastated their habitat.
The December 2019 fire burned over 25,000 hectares, including several ecologically important areas, in Charleston Conservation Park located in South Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges.
To help restore habitat that was home to these animals and birds, the Kersbrook Landcare Group received one of three Hawke’s Brewing Threatened Species Landcare Grants of up to $15,000 each. The funding is enabling the Group to undertake its ‘Growing for Bushfire Recovery’ project.
The Kersbrook Landcare Group manages a local indigenous plant nursery where trained volunteers assist in the production of approximately 50,000 plants a year. For this project, the Group will propagate and grow 7,500 local indigenous plants in its nursery.
Kersbrook Landcare will provide the plants to the Friends of Charleston Conservation Park who will do the planting with support from National Parks and Wildlife.
This revegetation project will provide critical habitat for the Western Pygmy Possum, Ringtail Possum and numerous other bird and fauna species.
The Capertee Valley Landcare Group in NSW also received a Hawke’s Brewing Landcare Threatened Species Grant for their project to provide watering stations for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater and other declining Woodland Birds. The Native Animal Rescue Group NSW is the third group that received a grant for its project, ‘Homes Among the Gum Trees’. Click to learn more about these two projects.