Dingo Mountain Environmental Reserve

29/06/2026

15/06/2026

The footage captured of the fauna utilising the nexting boxes at Dingo Mountain is fantastic.
Dingo Mountain is a significant environmental green space that contains flora and fauna which needs to be protected for future generations.
Crows Nest Environmental are working with Plant Land Management Services and Leaftail Environmental to maintain and manage this incredibly special area.

12/06/2026

08/06/2026

One of the ongoing projects we are involved in is providing specialist ecological advice and services for the management of a very special local conservation reserve - Dingo Mountain, at Crows Nest. One aspect of our involvement is a nestbox monitoring project and we'll be regularly posting pictures of the critters making use of these nestboxes over the coming weeks.

THE BIGGER PICTURE:
Dingo Mountain serves as a vital hotspot within the Koala Climate Corridors: Bunyas to Border (B2B) climate corridor - a project funded by International Fund for Animal Welfare and Great Eastern Ranges to create safe movement pathways for threatened wildlife to adapt under changing climate conditions. To enhance the habitat for our local population of threatened gliders and monitor how they're responding to their new artificial homes, a major regional collaboration under the Bunyas to Border initiative is underway. The Dingo Mountain Nest Box Monitoring Project is a collaboration between Crows Nest Environmental, Lockyer Uplands Catchments Inc., Friends of the Forest Inc. and University of Southern Queensland.
We at Leaftail Environmental are monitoring these nest box cameras on an ongoing basis (and thanks to Mitchell Roberts for his assistance!). Stay tuned - we can't wait to show you what we've been seeing over the past year or so!

📸This fluffy tail has been captured - can you guess who it belongs to?! 📸

01/06/2026

28/02/2026

22/02/2026

In a stunning victory for wildlife conservation, a rare northern quoll has been "rediscovered" at the Piccaninny Plains Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia. The small, spotted marsupial was captured on a trail camera positioned on a remote rocky outcrop—a location scientists hadn't formally surveyed in decades. This sighting is the first time the species has been confirmed in the sanctuary in nearly 80 years, offering a glimmer of hope for a creature that many feared had been permanently wiped out from the region by feral predators. 🐨📸

The northern quoll is an essential nocturnal predator, but its population has plummeted across the continent due to the spread of toxic cane toads and habitat loss. Biologists at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy credit the discovery to a "hunch" and persistent monitoring. The fact that this individual was found in such a healthy state suggests that targeted fire management and feral cat control are successfully creating safe havens for Australia's most threatened mammals. This breakthrough reminds us that even in the face of extinction, nature is remarkably resilient when given a protected space to thrive. ✨