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Furry Friday! 📸 🦘 We use remote cameras to

Furry Friday! 📸 🦘
We use remote cameras to assist in targeted fauna survey as well as to gain a baseline understanding of what species are within our study areas. This survey technique is a favourite as it’s a minimal stress option for the animals, useful for elusive species, provides results over many days/nights, and let’s not forget - it’s not labour intensive (aka easy! Set and forget 😎).

The best part for us is collecting the cameras and seeing who we’ve caught out! Just don’t forget where you place the camera 🤯

Introducing the Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo to Fe

Introducing the Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo to Feathered Friend Fridays!
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You probably know that these birds use their powerful beaks to feed on seeds of native trees and pinecones.
Like the individual pictured, the YTBC also considers larvae of tree-boring beetles and cossid moths to be good grub (we worked hard for that pun).
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She is seen stripping the bark from the tree and tearing away at the wood to find them.
📸: @jameslidsey
#featheredfriendfriday #yellowtailedblackcockatoo

Today marks World Bee Day! 🐝🐝🐝 We challe

Today marks World Bee Day! 🐝🐝🐝

We challenge you to identify the native Teddy Bear Bee (Amegilla bombiformis) from the invasive European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Bee in our post (hints and answers below).

Pollination is a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems.

Nearly 90% of the worlds wild flowering species depend entirely or in part on animal pollination.

Funnily, the invasive species pictured is busy pollinating an endangered native plant – the Illawarra Zieria.

Our survival also depends on the survival of bees with nearly 75% of the world’s food crops depending on animal pollination.

So next time you see a bee in your neighbourhood, bee kind!
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Answers:

Slide 1 – Teddy Bear Bee

Slide 2 – European Honey Bee

Did you guess correct?

Learn more about world bee day via the link below:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day

When you think of a pollinator what comes to mind……bees of course! But in case you didn’t know bees aren’t the only pollinators we have in Australia. We have butterflies, wasps, flies, moths, beetles, thrips, ants and many birds and mammals that are key to the successful pollination of much of our beautiful bushland.

Check out this Acronychia
oblongifolia getting some pollination services by a range of critters! 🐞🦋🪰🪳🐝

This week is a special one for pollinators as it’s Wild Pollinator Count which gives you an opportunity to contribute to wild pollinator insect conservation in Australia!

Check out the link in our bio to find out how you can contribute!

#wildpollinatorcount #pollinators #pollination #birdsandthebees #

Congratulations to Mr Lodge Environmental himself

Congratulations to Mr Lodge Environmental himself @jack_tea_ for completing the Hunt 1000, a grueling 1044km ride from Canberra to Melbourne climbing over 23,000 meters (that's three Everests!!). I'm sure his legs are ready to get back in the field for more bush bashing 😅.

Today at Lodge we’re celebrating World Wildlife

Today at Lodge we’re celebrating World Wildlife Day! This year’s theme is "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet", as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystem services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally.

Historically our natural ecosystems have seldom been seen as a valuable resource in our economy, and unfortunately have been subjected to pressures such as clearing and degradation to make way for more financially viable activities.

Today we are seeing the signs of a shifting economy with the value of our natural ecosystems being realised. If you are interested in this topic check out the podcast “Business of Biodiversity” by the Saving Our Species program and Grow Love Media. They cover some fantastic topics around how biodiversity is good for business!

These photos are from a beautiful location we are helping to establish as a Biodiversity Stewardship Site to ensure its conservation into the future.

#worldwildlifeday #wwd #ecology #conservation #environmental #environment #biodiversity #stewardship

Tree hollows are a unique feature of our beautiful

Tree hollows are a unique feature of our beautiful landscape and play an integral role for many of our native animals.

These features are formed slowly over time (sometimes taking over 100-years!), usually starting
when limbs are dropped from trees or by the action of termites, fungal decay and bushfires.

Land clearing and urbanisation are significantly reducing the numbers of hollows available for native fauna to shelter, hide from predators, breed, and raise their young.

Of the 174 native animal species in NSW which rely on tree hollows, 40 are listed as threatened.
This highlights the importance of avoiding impacts to hollow bearing trees –
something Lodge Environmental strives towards by educating and working collaboratively with our
clients.

📸 @jameslidsey

#hollows #conservation #ecology #hbts #consulting #environmental #ecological #nature

Introducing the greater glider to ‘Fluffy Friday

Introducing the greater glider to ‘Fluffy Fridays’

This species is the largest member of the ringtail possum family (Pseudocheirida).

Its size and unique anatomy, including shorter than typical gliding membranes, allow for travelling distances in the air of up to 100 m at a time!

These qualities and lack of a prehensile, grippy tail have also earned the species a reputation for being quite clumsy, particularly when grounded…

Greater gliders are found in eucalypt forests of eastern Australia and has a highly specialised eucalypt-based diet.

Sadly, due to loss of habitat, the species has been listed as vulnerable at the Commonwealth level.

This photo is from a recent job, where Lodge is working with our client towards securing a Biodiversity Stewardship Agreement (BSA). Such voluntary and in-perpetuity agreements can be entered into by landholders to secure offset sites, contributing to the conservation of habitat for our fluffy, feathery, and scaly native fauna.

📸 @jameslidsey

#greaterglider #ecology #fluffy #australia #conservation

Through the looking glass! Taxonomy is how we cla

Through the looking glass!

Taxonomy is how we class different species depending on their evolutionary traits. This is a vital field as without this we could not accurately identify species or determine their conservation status. There is still so much we don’t know when classifying species.

New research has just led to the reclassification of some grass species in eastern Australia, leading to a new genus being described. For more information on these grass species see the link in our bio!

#taxonomy #ecology #science #grass #conservation