ABOUT THE SPECIES
The Greater Glider is Australia’s largest gliding mammal. They use hollow-bearing trees in eucalypt forests for shelter and nesting, and each family group needs multiple den trees within its home range. They eat only eucalypt leaves, buds, flowers and mistletoe. With their high dependence on suitable forest and large hollow-bearing trees, habitat loss and fragmentation through bushfires and clearing pose an enormous threat. Australia’s Black Summer bushfires destroyed large tracts of bushland where an endangered population of these gliders live. A small number of gliders from this population were in care with WIRES after the bushfires. Image courtesy of @todds_wildlife.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
WIRES has been providing a rescue service for Australian wildlife in distress for more than 35 years we respond to more than 90,000 rescues each year, we also receive around 170,000 calls to our rescue line annually. All wildlife is special and we rescue and care for all Australian native species. The population of Greater Gliders is at significant risk following the fires and each year we have a small number of these special animals in our care. This year we had a few of these gliders who somehow survived the fires from the endangered south coast population.
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