WAMA will earn our social license and demonstrate our commitment to conservation by playing our role in helping to prevent the extinction of local wildlife from the Grampians by:
- Building a predator-proof sanctuary at the WAMA site and working together with local wildlife sanctuary partners to fight extinction
- Developing captive insurance populations of genetically unique, local wildlife species at risk of extinction from the Grampians
- Returning locally extinct species to the WAMA sanctuary to demonstrate ‘rewilding’
- Driving community lead, threatened species reintroductions across the Grampians to improve species conservation status, reverse local extinctions and rewilding by returning the missing ecological functions wildlife can provide
View WAMA’s 2018 Bird List (pdf, 120kbs).
2018 PLANS
- Establish WAMA’s Citizen Science Project
- Victorian Biodiversity On-ground Action grant application, salvage of Long-nosed Potoroo and Southern Brown Bandicoot from the Grampians
- Removal of pests, obtain pest free status
- Wildlife sanctuary plans, permit and approvals
- Easter 2019 – major event, releasing long-nosed potoroo and southern brown bandicoot
LINKS
Grampians wildlife extinction alert: http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/media-releases/articles/climate-change-could-wipe-out-australian-mammals-deakin-research
What is rewilding? How wolves changed rivers: https://rewildingaustralia.org.au/articles/role-apex-predators-how-wolves-changed-flow-rivers
Local partner, Halls Gap Zoo: http://hallsgapzoo.com.au/
Citizen Science partner Museums Victoria: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/
Healesville Sanctuary: https://www.zoo.org.au/healesville
Zoos Victoria: https://www.zoo.org.au/healesville
WWF Australia: http://www.wwf.org.au/
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