Gunnedah management actions

Aerial view by Guy Roth
Photo: Guy Roth		 Possum in a nest by Phil Spark
Photo: Phil Spark		 People planting trees by Milly Hobson
Photo: Milly Hobson

General management action

Routine control of terrestrial and aquatic weeds, including via management agreements with NRM agencies, councils and other organisations.

Routine control of feral animals, including via management agreements with NRM agencies, councils and other organisations.

Targeted revegetation works to increase native vegetation cover over the long term, focussing efforts adjacent to existing remnant vegetation, within threatened ecological communities, within identified regional corridors, and adjacent to rivers, streams and wetlands.

Prevent livestock from having permanent access to rivers, streams and wetlands, and where possible excluding grazing altogether to allow the condition of river banks and wetlands to recover.

 

Priority management actions for this region

  • Minimise the use of insecticides and pesticides, particularly close to riparian areas, and avoid application on windy days.
  • Retain any hollow-bearing trees (including dead standing trees) such as River Red Gum, White Box and Yellow Box as ongoing habitat and refuge for species such as Squirrel Glider, Corben’s Long-eared Bat, Little Pied Bat, Yellow-bellied Sheathtail-bat, Barking Owl, Masked Owl, Glossy Black Cockatoo, Southern Boobook and Turquoise Parrot.
  • Protect and monitor known nesting sites of raptor species such as Black Falcon, Square-tailed Kite, Little Eagle and Wedge-tailed Eagle.
  • Protect known roost sites for species including Corben’s Long-eared Bat, Large-eared Pied Bat and Eastern Cave Bat.
  • Do not remove termite mounds as these are important for native animals such as Short-beaked Echidna, Laughing Kookaburra and Lace Monitor.
  • Ensure that rodent, rabbit and wild dog baits are applied in accordance with label specifications and best practice, as secondary poisoning of species such as Spotted-tailed Quoll, Barking Owl, Masked Owl, Wedge-tailed Eagle and Laughing Kookaburra may occur on ingestion of poisoned animals.
  • Retain large fallen logs as habitat for species such as Short-beaked Echidna, Spotted-tailed Quoll, Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard and Sand Goanna.
  • Retain large isolated paddock trees and clumps of trees to assist movement of species such as Common Brushtail Possum, Koala, Little Pied Bat, Grey-crowned Babbler, Hooded Robin, Little Lorikeet, Turquoise Parrot, Willie Wagtail and Zebra Finch, and encourage regeneration around them.
  • Retain native grassland and shrubs on the farm for ground-dwelling species such as Diamond Firetail, Dusky Woodswallow, Hooded Robin, Speckled Warler, Turquoise Parrot, Zebra Finch and Pink-tailed Legless Lizard.
  • Work with the community to control Noisy Miners which out-compete other native bird species such as Black-chinned Honeyeater, Regent Honeyeater, Brown Treecreeper, Little Lorikeet, Turquoise Parrot and Varied Sittella.
  • Work with the community to control wild dogs which prey on native species such as Koala, Rainbow Bee-eater, Tawny Frogmouth, Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard and Pink-tailed Legless Lizard, as well as calves and lambs.

 

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