During the past 2 months DSE and parks staff have unfortunately detected 3 mortalities at the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby (BTRW) site. One mortality could be directly attributed to fox predation; as a result we have temporarily employed our fox baiting guru, Daryl Panther, to invest more effort baiting and monitoring fox activity around and within the BTRW site.
· Flood recovery funds will not only be devoted to reinstating walking tracks, roads and visitor sites. Soon staff will find out about the allocation of flood recovery funds for biodiversity projects. Projects nominated for funding include an assessment of the condition of significant natural values within flood affected areas (e.g. riparian vegetation, aquatic fauna) and continued effort eradicating and monitoring emerging weed populations, amongst other projects.
·The new State Government has committed to ongoing funding for introduced species programs on public land. Locally this means the ‘Grampians Ark’ program is likely to attract ongoing funds. Previously the ‘Grampians Ark’ was only funded as a four year program, therefore this announcement is very good news for the ongoing control of foxes and other introduced species within the Greater Grampians area.
Ryan Duffy