Wijoon is the Bandjalang word for Gliders.

 

Following the 2019/2020 wildlfires which burnt 95% of the IPA, over 120 nest boxes were installed to support the threatened Squirrel Glider and other arboreal marsupials including the threatened Brush-tailed Phascogale and the Yellow-footed Antichinus.  

 

During regular monitoring of these nest boxes, the Minyumai Rangers observed the Gliders moving back across the landscape and in 2023, 95% of the nest boxes were occupied.

 

Nocturnal monitoring, bioacoustics monitoring, 4G cameras, A.I. software, drone surveys and other technology have been employed to assist in better understanding the abundance and distribution of these species. 

 

The Wijoon project is a Minyumai IPA partnership with Wildbnb Wildlife Habitat.

 

Project partners include NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, DPE Saving-our-Species, Southern Cross University and the Ngunya Jargoon IPA.