Biodiversity Monitoring Services

28/05/2024

A wonderful surprise getting a feathertail glider while checking eastern pygmy-possum nest boxes. This was a community project set up by Lithgow Environment Group Inc. in the new Gardens of Stone SCA.

21/12/2023

BMS in the news again, this time for our work w Eastern Pygmy-possums, Lithgow Environment Group Inc. And Lithgow Women's Shed. Great work all

Following the Black Summer bushfires, Lithgow Environment Group and Lithgow Area Women’s Shed are helping endangered Eastern Pygmy Possums.

04/12/2023

State of the art tech being developed and tested in Lithgow's own backyard

The distinctive call of male koalas looking for a mate has been programmed into sensors that are speeding up research into where the threatened animals live.

12/10/2022

We have been lucky enough to recieve a grant, to aid in developing technology so that we can better survey for koalas, from the NSW Government's Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program.

We have have been working with Western Syd Uni (UWS) and NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN), with assistance from DPI and DPE to develope a device which can be left in the field and can detect and record koala calls.

https://www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au/news/$10-million-to-tackle-the-states-big-challenges

08/12/2021

It looks like it's a warm wet summer! The highland peat swamp are regenerating after the fires and the wildlife is breeding. Here is an endangered Blue Mountains Water Skink inhabiting a peat swamp and Eastern Pygmy-possums nesting in artificial next boxes.

16/10/2021

Eastern Pygmy-possums (Cercartetus nanus) are in much lower numbers since the Gosper's Mountain Bushfire. But they are still holding on! This female was found utilising an artificial nestbox and had two young in the pouch. The last pic is a male we found earlier in the year. The majority of the Banksias (their primary food source) burnt in the bushfire. The ones that resprouted have been producing a small number of flowers. While ones that have germinated will need a few years before they mature.

17/06/2021

Big thanks to Zig Zag Motel Lithgow and On Top Gutters for the roof tiles which will be deployed as artificial reptile habitat for wildlife surveys. Pics of Common Dunnarts and a Highland Copperhead utilising tile refuges.

14/05/2021

When does a Tiger have spots??
When it's a Tiger Quoll! AKA Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus).

24/04/2021

Feels like I'm about to drive through the aussie version of monument valley

25/03/2021

Wonderful to see a flock of around 40 Gang-gang Cockatoos hanging out in the peppermint trees along Farmers Ck in Lithgow this afternoon. Splendid autumn weather.

09/11/2020

Look who managed to survive the fires. Long way to any unburnt country

15/09/2020

Starting to see occupation of the nest boxes made by the Lithgow Women's Shed and Lithgow Environment Group. Unfortunately it wasn't the Eastern Pygmy Possum we were hoping for, but a still cute Agile Antechinus.