Our ‘Sounds Of Country’ project is gathering audio/acoustic data on species of conservation significance in fire impacted East Gippsland. Using this data to inform forest management decision making.
Using state of the art technology to enable a network of trained volunteers, supported by industry professionals, to improve conservation outcomes using real world acoustic data.
Along with our friends at
Gippsland Environment Group we have recently been conducting acoustic surveys for Yellow Bellied Gliders in coastal
East Gippsland at Lake Tyers and in the Colquhoun forest.This work seeks to better inform planned burning activities, which currently do not undertake any systematic or ground based biodiversity assessments.
So far we have processed over 100, 000 recordings containing over 500 positive glider detections.
Our Yellow Bellied Glider reports can be downloaded below:
To sign up and participate in the project, please download our ‘expression of interest form’: here
Our first acoustic monitoring workshop took place late last year and can be viewed in full here.
For instructions on how to setup and operate the equipment please visit our ‘resources page’ , where you will find both downloadable guides and instruction videos covering all our common equipment including Arbimon.
The automated audio recorders (Song Meter Micro and Audio-Moths) will gather acoustic data that can then be processed using ‘audio recognisers’ to later tell us what species are recorded via the Arbimon platform , provided free by our friends at Rainforest Connection.
We are keen to see this technology used to increase our collective capacity to gather meaningful data on species of conservation significance including yellow bellied gliders, birds/owls, frogs, batts and koalas.
If this ‘sounds’ like something you or your group may be interested in, please get in touch. Please share this invite with anyone you think may be interested or contact us via email for further details.
