When considered as one species, sugar gliders were widespread, abundant and officially classified as “least concern”, but now that’s changed.
Sugar gliders are the main predator of some of Tasmania’s most endangered birds, including the imperilled swift parrot.
We share our gardens with a surprising number of native animals.
The aim of the crowdfunding campaign, ‘Operation PKO’ is to build a hundred nesting boxes fitted with a mechanical door that will keep out the birds main predator, the sugar glider.
Rather than merely climb, some ingenious possums have taken to the air to swoop between the trees of Australian forests.
We now have ample evidence of these cute marsupials’ taste for flesh – and they could be endangering some of our most threatened birds.
A sugar glider peeks out from behind a tree in Crater Lake National Park, Queensland