Albury Conservation Company is jumping for joy to announce that we are expanding our urban wildlife monitoring program into Wodonga, Victoria. What we started in early 2018 as a Squirrel Glider Monitoring Program in Albury (NSW) will now become a cross-border program centred around arboreal mammals in the city’s major urban growth areas – Thurgoona […]
Albury Conservation Company has a new chairperson There was a significant changing of the guard at Albury Conservation Company’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday 22nd August 2019. David Sexton has handed over the baton of Chairperson to James Jenkins. David is a Thurgoona resident and has been a community member of our Board since 2007. He
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
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
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
