'Dine & Shine' with Wildlife Queensland at Camp Moogerah for our Queensland Glider Network workshop, dinner and spotlighting evening.

Join guest presenters Paul Revie (Queensland Glider Network), Jessica Lovegrove-Walsh (Friends of Nerang National Park), and the crew from Geckoes Wildlife Presentations and Safe & Co for a FREE educational workshop and spotlighting event in the beautiful Scenic Rim at Camp Moogerah.

Enjoy a light lunch and dinner while you learn more about the region’s glorious gliding mammals, with a particular focus on the endangered southern and central greater glider (Petauroides volans) and the vulnerable yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis).

Attendees will:

• get up-close with some of Queensland’s adorable gliders, with an engaging native animal presentation by Geckoes Wildlife Presentations
• learn all about the preferred habitats, habits, and lifestyles of Queensland’s largest gliding marsupials and what makes them so hollow-dependent and at risk of extinction
• learn how to make and install much-needed glider nest boxes that act as artificial tree hollows
• learn about best-practice surveying and spotlighting techniques for gliders, and discover how landholders and the public can provide useful data that helps conservation biologists and ecologists as they work to save these species
• enjoy a light lunch and dinner while meeting like-minded nature lovers
• take an (optional – limited to 40 people) informative early evening spotlighting tour around Moogerah and Spicers Gap and hopefully spot some wild gliders! To book for spotlighting, please choose the 'with spotlighting' ticketing item.

Supported by the Australian Government’s Bushfire Recovery for Wildlife and their Habitats program.

PROGRAM

11:00 am – Welcome and housekeeping (Paul Revie, Queensland Glider Network)

11:15 am – Welcome to Country

11:30 am – Introduction to gliders and their ecology (Wildlife Queensland)

12:30 pm – Sandwich/Light lunch break

1:00 pm – Native wildlife presentation (Geckoes Wildlife Presentations)

2:30 pm – Nest box building workshop (Safe & Co.)

4:30 pm – Glider conservation and restoration (Wildlife Queensland)

5:30 pm – Spotlighting hints and how to report glider sightings (Wildlife Queensland)

6:00 pm – Light dinner

7:00 pm to late – Optional spotlighting. For best practice purposes, spotlighting is limited to 40 people in two groups, so book quickly to avoid disappointment using the ticket 'with spotlighting' option.

COVID COMPLIANCE

This event complies with Government regulations relating to limits on public gatherings for coronavirus (COVID-19) that apply at the time of the event.

• Maximum 60 attendees at the event.
• Hand sanitiser will be provided.
• Names, phone numbers and email addresses to be supplied for contact tracing.
• Seating and mask requirements will comply with COVID restrictions current on the day of the workshop.
• As the state government has now dropped vaccination mandates for dining and entertainment venues from 14 April, we can now welcome all attendees without the requirement to show a vaccination certificate. We will still maintain Covid-safe distancing and hand sanitising at events, and we trust that attendees will decide for themselves whether they wish to mask and/or to attend based on their personal health at the time.