Report
Koala Safe Neighbourhoods: Koala monitoring, genetics research and community engagement project: Year 2 (2020) - Interim Progress Report
University of the Sunshine Coast
2020
Abstract
The Koala Safe Neighbourhoods (KSN) program is a Redland City Council (RCC) koala conservation initiative that was launched in March 2019. This program delivered a pilot koala safe neighbourhood in the suburb of Ormiston that includes a koala tracking and monitoring project. The key objective for 2020 was to expand the current KSN program to include additional koala safe neighbourhoods in the areas of Birkdale and Thornlands and selected properties at Mount Cotton. In 2018, RCC also engaged Detection Dogs for Conservation (DDC) to deliver a Redlands Coast-wide genetic survey (see Redland Coast Koala Population and Genetic Assessment Report on Council’s website), as an extension to that work the DDC surveyed the new KSNs as a first step to understanding koala populations within those areas, and have followed that work on during 20/21 with a repeat of the 2018 city-wide genetic surveys (mainland only). No koala genetic surveys were conducted on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah) in 2020/21.
Details
- Title
- Koala Safe Neighbourhoods: Koala monitoring, genetics research and community engagement project: Year 2 (2020) - Interim Progress Report
- Authors
- Caio Santos Neto (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringKye Mcdonald (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringRomane Cristescu (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- 28 pages
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99713598502621
- Output Type
- Report
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