Experts say growling grass frog and southern
brown bandicoot not likely to be found at Endeavour Fern Gully
Fri 16 Feb 2018 21.10 GMTLast
modified on Sat 17 Feb 2018 23.18 GMT
Experts have cast doubt on government claims
the Coalition is funding a conservation project in Victoria’s Endeavour Fern
Gully to benefit threatened species – because the listed species are unlikely
to occur in the area.
Endeavour Fern Gully is a 27-hectare (65
acre) rainforest property on the Mornington Peninsula. The environment and
energy minister, Josh
Frydenberg,
says the government had funded a broad Green Army project that “improves
habitat through weed control and promotes greater conservation awareness of
native vegetation in remnant bushland at Endeavour Fern Gully”.
“This is where a number of threatened species
are known or likely to be, including the grey-headed flying-fox, the southern
brown bandicoot (eastern), the growling grass frog and the clover glycine.”
Yet ecologists said there was no record of
some of these species in the area.
Geoff Heard, a lecturer of wildlife ecology
at Charles Sturt University who studies the growling grass frog, said the
species was unlikely to be found at that site.
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