The solution

Bungowannah / Splitters Creek Landcare Group's initial project was a nest box building workshop in 2014 funded via the Slopes to Summit (S2S) partnership of the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative and the NSW Government’s Environmental Trust managed by Holbrook Landcare. The workshop involved a local nest box builder partially building the nest boxes. Thirty-four children and their families assembled them at a Little Landcare workshop. It was a great community event with 59 attendees in total and 20 finished nest boxes. In addition, participants learnt about where to position and install their boxes, managing threats to the Squirrel glider and the importance of preserving and enhancing their habitat. 

In 2015 a further 15 residents participated in the Albury Conservation Company Urban Nest Box Program. The nest boxes were installed by Parklands Albury Wodonga. The discovery of a glider in a barbed wire fence in Splitters Creek highlighted the threat that barbed wire presents in glider flight paths. In response the Wodonga Green Army team sponsored by Parklands Albury Wodonga replaced the barbed wire with plain wire at that site.