WALLABY HABITAT AND CORRIDORS
We can contribute to the creation of a wallaby-friendly
environment, and encourage wallabies to remain in the area, by
providing the correct habitat with the three essential ingredients
of cover (including protection, resting areas and travel corridors),
food and water.
Wallabies must have somewhere to go and a way to get there: they
need to find mates. Wildlife corridors are relatively narrow,
linear strips of habitat that connect otherwise isolated habitat
patches. Natural corridors follow gullies, creeks and drainage
lines. Corridor quality depends on vegetation condition, weed
and pest invasion, and recreation use.
| Bushland suitable for wildlife habitat
includes saplings through to mature, dying and dead
trees with hollows in branches. |
As a guide, 50m. wide strips of bushland should
be left along gullies away from houses.
| A green web of bushland corridors
along the gullies and steep land links up with the Brisbane
River and with larger habitat areas on the other side
of Mt.Crosby Road to the north and west. |
The number of wallabies in the area would probably
be too small to be viable in itself. Permanent connection to the
larger areas of habitat on the other side of Mt.Crosby Road is
therefore vital.
Developments that might isolate the area (such as roads with high
traffic volumes) would be a threat to the survival of the wallabies.
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