Found a beautiful Wildlife Sanctuary on the fringes of Perth yesterday
As soon as I received my negative for Covid result Gusman went exploring. Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary is a 20 sq km predator free fenced Nature reserve at Gidgegannup, 50 km North East of Perth.
Paruna Sanctuary is an important site for conservation in the Avon-Wheatbelt both in it鈥檚 own right and because it forms a wildlife corridor between two national parks.
The sanctuary is home to a number of significant species including the threatened Chuditch, Carnaby鈥檚 Black Cockatoo, and small mammals such as the Honey Possum which lives in Paruna鈥檚 diverse heathlands, and the Western Pygmy Possum.
Most of the small-medium sized mammals have been lost from the Avon Wheatbelt, as a result of cats and foxes.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy and the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife have worked together across Paruna and adjacent national parks to implement a regional feral animal control program, which has enabled the successful reintroduction of Black-flanked Rock-wallabies and Tammar Wallabies to the area.
The Black-flanked Rock-wallaby reintroduction is particularly significant, as it was here in the Avon Valley that the species was first recorded in the 1840鈥檚.
Five species have been translocated to Paruna, the Black-flanked Rock-wallaby, Tammar Wallaby, Woylie, Quenda and Brushtail Possum. Although I never saw any during my visit, I am assured they are there.
Such a beautiful peaceful place. I know I will return sometime this week and spend more hours there, camera ready, maybe a pic of a Tammar Wallaby. I have seen one of these in the wild. Down at Dwellingup.
@CantExplain People here have no idea...we thought nothing of traveling 300 miles...the roads were so straight. I still remember driving with my grandfather and he had a governor on his car...65 mph...and he used to laugh and say he never saw anyone keep it right on the needle like that...馃ぃ. Meantime traffic was whizzing past at 80...馃ぃ
@4meAndyou 65 mph! That was slow by I-80 standards! I remember I-80 being closed more often than being open due to white-out blizzards. I live in Kansas now and still drive some open country
@CantExplain Yeah, drove me nuts to have to drive that slow...but he had just bought the car...and the posted speed limit was 65...馃ぃ...and I was driving with my learner's permit to spell my mother and grandfather. 馃ぃ
@cherokeepatti Perth, above the Coastal Plain, sits on a Massive, Massive bed of Granite Rock. Very ancient and mostly undisturbed because Earthquakes are very, very rare. The Granite ranges in age from 2500 Million to 1000 Million years old.
