Saving the Greater Glider project was a grassroots community education and habitat protection/restoration and enhancement project aimed at assisting the recovery of the species in the Upper Burnett region. Greater Glider populations have decreased by 80% over the last 20 years and the quality of remaining private forestry habitats are now more important than ever.

Now classified as three distinct subspecies, this project focused on the southern Petauroides volans. Through a series of workshops, the installation of living hollows & nesting-boxes, habitation monitoring & the development of educational resources this project aimed to assist the long-term recovery of Greater Gliders within the Upper Burnett catchment.

The project’s primary object was to enhance the presence, abundance, reproductive outcomes and overall recovery of the hollow-dependent Greater Glider by addressing its key threats through increased nesting habitat and landholder education.

Project achievements:

• 8080 hectares (targeted by habitat enhancement activities)
• 11 locations (enhancement sites)
• 69 den sites installed (carved hollows & nesting boxes)
• 264 participants (workshops & events)
• 76% of all public access observation records for the Burnett (since 2010 have been reported by citizen scientists involved in this project)

Habitat enhancement activities occurred across multiple private grazing production properties and a mining rehabilitation site currently managed by the Department of Resources (Queensland) in the Upper Burnett with citizen science and community education focused across the entire Burnett catchment (an area 25% larger than SE Qld & two-thirds the size of Tasmania).

The habitat enhancement activities of this project were completed in November 2023 with monitoring and citizen science activities ongoing. You can still report a greater glider sighting in the Burnett through iNaturalist – link in the resources section.

A copy of the final project report can be found in the resources section below.