A number of EPA officers have visited several properties which have suffered vegetation damage after an aerial spraying event on an adjacent property in Kerry Valley. Some of these property owners have reported and recorded many dead wildlife - frogs and native wild birds including magpies, butcherbirds, king parrots. The officers advised this procedure. FREEZE and label specimens so they may be collected and autopsied to determine cause of death. If possible photograph fauna on site, tag location for later GPS recording and transferring to digit mapping system.
If anyone has any concerns with dead birds or wildlife that they believe harmed because of the chemical spraying even just after the events of spraying please contact Aidan Handyside at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. phone 07 3008 6982 mobile 0423022704. Also if residents have had their vegetation damaged in anyway on their own property from the aerial spraying you can contact him over that issue - please do this as soon as possible.
As well as dead animals local residents have observed that the wildlife usually seen on their properties on a regular basis seem to have disappeared - being conspicuous by their absence. The vanished fauna include the marsupial phascogales, rock wallabies, and other wallabies and kangaroos. Recording this pattern is also vital to determine how wide and what biodiversity has been affected.
WHY REPORT SIGHTINGS OF LIVE ANIMALS?
Fauna surveys may be incomplete or non existent in many areas. Reported and confirmed sightings since 2006 of both live and dead spotted-tailed quoll in the now 'country' Logan areas have revised scientific opinion for that species. It had previously not been seen in the area for over 50 years. Accordingly conservation groups and concerned citizens can argue that development plans, local growth management plans, road design etc take those sightings into consideration. What you see may not be seen by others and can lead to current surveys being conducted.