An image of two greater gliders cuddled up in a treetop nesting box has been hailed as a long-awaited sign that efforts to rehabilitate a colony in NSW are working.
Two endangered greater gliders have been photographed snuggling within an artificial nesting box in southern New South Wales.The land council will continue working with locals to restore habitat for the marsupial.
Millions of animals were believed to have been killed in the blaze, and habitat destruction meant the remaining gliders lost vital hiding places from predators. There is no reliable estimate of the species' population size in Australia, but experts say they were once commonplace across eastern parts of the country.
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