Next time you’re road-tripping along the east coast, keep an eye out for a little-known Aussie invention piercing the skyline: glide poles. For Australia’s gliding possums, or gliders, they’re the next best thing since tall trees.
Threatened species affected by the 2019–20 bushfires are setting up home in purpose-built nesting boxes on the NSW north coast.
The greater glider population in the NSW Blue Mountains has more than halved after the 2019-20 bushfire season and prolonged drought and heatwaves.
When considered as one species, sugar gliders were widespread, abundant and officially classified as “least concern”, but now that’s changed.
This is absolutely everything you need to know about all of Australia’s possums and gliders.
Aussie gliders may not often turn up as roadkill, but their ability to travel from tree to tree is hampered by the construction of large scale roads.
They may be well-loved for their distinctive calls and adorable fluffiness, but the rare yellow-bellied gliders future is precarious.
Exactly 23 tiny feathertail glider joeys have been born at the Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park.
Rather than merely climb, some ingenious possums have taken to the air to swoop between the trees of Australian forests.
At least five tiny feathertail glider joeys have been born at Taronga Zoo in a rare breeding success.