Project Possum
As part of our on-going partnership with Parks Victoria, DSE and Dr. Dan Harley on “Project Possum”, which aims to provide an additional 300 nest boxes for Leadbeater’s Possum in the wild to supplement their declining forest habitat, we are offering an opportunity for our supporters to contribute to this program by “adopting” a nest box. Your adoption of a nest box allows one to be custom made, installed by our field volunteers and monitored annually to assess use by LBP colonies.
Nesting material present in nestbox 18 - evidence of LBP!
As of February 2010, 150 boxes have been adopted of which 99 have been installed. FLBP volunteers with assistance from Parks Victoria will continue to monitor for LBP activity in the 99 installed boxes annually during spring and summer. Although this is dependant on weather as acess into the remote areas can be quite difficult, as we have found in the past both fire and rain have been challenging!
During 2010 our main efforts will continue on monitoring these 99 boxes and install the additional ones - if boxes do not begin to show evidence of LBP’s nesting in them in the first 2 years of installation they will need to be moved to a new location within known Leadbeater’s Possum habitat to be trialled. In addition work will continue on identifying new locations for boxes that need to be moved and on sites for the additional purchased “Adopt a Nestbox” boxes.
The fieldwork webpage details all the upcoming opportunities for “Field Volunteer” memberships to become involved.
Schools involved in adopting nest boxes through the FLBP education program…
Adopted nest box results so far:
|
Adopted box Number |
Location |
Occupied |
Installed |
Last monitor |
Next monitor |
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1 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
2 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
3 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
2 LBP present |
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
4 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
5 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
6 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
7 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
8 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
9 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
10 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
11 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
12 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
13 |
Acheron Group Donna Buang |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
14 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
15 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
16 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
17 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
Nesting material present |
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
18 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
Nesting material present |
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
19 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
20 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
21 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
22 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
23 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
24 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
25 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
26 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
27 |
Acheron Group Ben Cairn |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
28 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
29 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
30 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
31 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
32 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
33 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
34 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
35 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
36 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
37 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
38 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
39 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
40 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
41 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
42 |
Powelltown Group Yarra Junction Noojee |
|
Aug-08 |
Oct-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
43 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
44 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
45 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
46 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
47 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
48 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
49 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
50 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
51 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
52 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
53 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
54 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
55 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
56 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
57 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
58 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
59 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
60 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
61 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
62 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
63 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
64 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
65 |
Acheron Group Maroondah catchment |
|
Apr-09 |
Nov-09 |
Oct-10 |
|
66 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
67 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
68 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
69 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
70 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
71 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
72 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
73 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
74 |
Powelltown Group Dowey Spur |
|
Oct-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
75 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
76 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
77 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
78 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
79 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
80 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
81 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
82 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
83 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
84 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
85 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
86 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
87 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
88 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
89 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
90 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
91 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
92 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
93 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
94 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
95 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
96 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
97 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
98 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |
|
99 |
Acheron Group O’Shannassy catchment |
|
May-09 |
|
Oct-10 |