Land For Wildlife

About Land For Wildlife

The Land For Wildlife scheme is a program that supports landholders in conserving and managing wildlife on their property. The opportunity to contribute to the conservation of unique Australian native plants and animals that are indigenous to the area.

A blissful blend of ecosystems

Wandha forms part of a nature corridor that connects Wallingat National Park in the north-west with Myall Lakes National Park in the south-east.

Our land is located in the Wallingat River sub catchment of the Wallis Lake catchment that drains an area of some 144,000 hectares ranging from ridges and valleys to the coastal plains and estuaries. We’re fortunate to have diverse vegetation and habitats throughout the property that range from open woodland to freshwater wetland to the tall eucalypts in the dry schlerophyll forest on the ridge.

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Land For Wildlife Projects

Koala Safe Spaces

With support from Mid Coast Council, we’re removing inhibiting weeds like lantana to allow koalas to move more freely and safely across the landscape. We’ll also be planting another 40-50 koala feed trees on the property.

Habitat Gardens

Many exotic plants were planted in the garden and open woodland over the years prior to us owning the property. We’re gradually removing these without impacting existing habitats and replacing them with native plants that are indigenous to the area.

Nesting Boxes

To support the breeding of wildlife, we’ve purchased through FAWNA wildlife rescue nesting boxes for squirrel gliders, sugar gliders, feathertail gliders, microbats, ringtail possums and brrushtail possums.

Weed Management

We’re removing inhibiting weeds like lantana in our bushland so wildlife can move more freely and also to make way to improve growing conditions for indigenous plant species.

Monitoring & Recording

We monitor and record species in a number of ways such as bird surveys, using the FrogID app, sound recorders for koalas, yellow-bellied gliders and microbats and wildlife cameras.

Artificial Hollows

Our trees are too young for animals to create hollows due to logging and bushfires in the past so to create more nesting hollows for arboreal fauna we’re planning to create artificial hollows in the trees.

Local species we’re wild about

We’re enhancing habitats for all wildlife on the property by replacing exotic plants with indigenous species, removing inhibiting and invasive weeds, installing nesting boxes and artificial hollows and monitoring and recording the wildlife here. There are some species we have our eye on in particular and you may be fortunate to see yourself.

Birds

The diversity of habitat on the property and the close proximity to the beach and bush creates a rich bird life at the property. We’re enhancing the habitat for birds by replacing exotic garden plants with indigenous and planting more mid-storey for the smaller birds. Use our binoculars (or BYO) and our bird guide books to see what you can identify. Make sure you note it down and let us know what you find.

Gliders & Possums

The engangered Greater Glider and vulnerable Yellow-bellied Glider as well as Squirrel, Sugar and Feathertail Gliders have been known in the local area. We have nesting boxes around the property for Squirrel Gliders, Sugar Gliders & Feathertail Gliders as well as Brushtail & Ringtail Possums. We also plan to install artificial hollows in our taller habitats for Greater Gliders & Yellow Bellied Gliders.

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Koalas

Through sound recorders and finding scat we know that koalas frequent the property. With the support of Mid Coast Council Once a widely populated species in the region, bushfires, disease, vehicle strikes, habitat fragmentation and dog attacks have threatened koalas. Several species of koala food trees including Tallowood, Swamp Mahogany, Forest Red Gum have been identified in our bushland.

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Swamp Wallabies

Although this wallaby is fairly common, this is their home. You’ll see them grazing around the property in the morning and afternoon. We’re enhancing their habitat by removing weeds and managing fire risks in our bushland. We don’t have fences in the bushland so they have the freedom to move across the landscape.

Frogs

We have two dams that we’re enhancing as frog habitats. We’ve identified a number of frog species on the property and continue to monitor and record their existence. We encourage guests to become citizen scientists and record frog calls around the property using the Australian Museum’s FrogID app. Can you catch the call of the elusive Green & Golden Bell Frog? Or the Wallum Froglet?

Brush-tailed Phascogales

The Brush-tailed Phascogale is tree-dwelling marsupial carnivore that prefers a dry schlerophyll habitat. Its listed as Vulnerable and is mainly found east of the Great Dividing Range. It has a characteristic, black, bushy ‘bottlebrush’ tail, with hairs up to 4 cm long.