North East Forest Alliance

Vulnerability:
The Scientific committee's reasons for the listing of this species as vulnerable
and rre were 'Populations severely reduced; poor recovery potential; threatening
processes severe; ecological specialist'.

Distribution: "The Sooty Owl occupies a narrow strip
on the coast of eastern fall of the Tablelands of New South Wales." (Debus 1994),
"Australia - coastal south-east Australia from the Conondale Range in south-east
Queensland to eastern Victoria. NE NSW - recorded from the Tweed, Brunswick,
richmond, Clarence, Bellinger, Macleay, Hastings, manning and Hunter valleys."
(Gilmore and Parnaby 1994)

According to Native American Indian mythology the owl is symbolically
associated with clairvoyance, astral projection and magic. In
many cultures the Owl is a symbol of wisdom because of it's powers
of keen silent observation that will see through others' deception.
I'm sure the powerful owl of the Australian forests can see through
State Forests' deception and understand the denegration of their
habitat.

Vulnerability: Catling and Burt (1994) in their study
in South East NSW note "The spotted-tailed quoll was found at one study site
only. Similarly, the only evidence of the spotted-tailed quoll during a 5 year
study just to the south of our study area was one scat found in regrowth forest
following wildfire (Lunney and Barker 1987)."

The yellow-bellied glider is the largest of the Australian
gliders, with the average length of head and body 280 mm and
tail 433 mm.

It is grey above and whitish to yellow below, with gliding
membrane extending from wrists to ankles, an oblique black stripe
on it's thigh and large bare ears. It's belly fur is white when
young and changes to yellow as it reaches maturity.