Lake Hume Gliders

The Friends of the Lake Hume Gliders (FLHG) is a sub-group of the WTLG that work towards improving and extending the safe range of squirrel gliders in the Lake Hume Village area.

Members include Lake Hume landholders, their families and friends, interested Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group members and others interested in helping to conserve and learn about the gliders.

The FLHG seek to:

1. Work with private and public landowners
2. Identify issues that may affect the gliders (negatively or positively)
3. Support, engage, canvass and represent (which constituents)
4. Disseminate information to WTLG members and partner landholders in an efficient and timely manner
5. Ensure two-way consultation and communication between WTLG President and partner landholders and the primary contact/key leaders.

The FLHG was formed by families of the Lake Hume Village area in 2013. The group initially focussed on the Crown Land below the Hume Dam spillway, following an audit of the natural resources of the area and changes required to improve it for gliders (eg nest boxes for protection, trees reconnecting corridors to improve range, tree shrubs for food sources and removing barb wire).

In 2013 the group received funding from the Albury Conservation Company for the supply of 20 nest boxes and plant 100 trees/shrubs.  This was so successful the Group received funding the following year for an additional 20 nestboxes and trees, expanding the range of gliders with boxes and jumping trees/food source shrubs further up the road, around the Lake Hume foreshore, and up through the adjacent Hawksview large grazing property.

Since then the group has maintained the site, planted more trees and shrubs, installed steel guards around trees/shrub to protect them from wallabies and kangaroos, continued woody weed control and monitored nest boxes annually using a pole camera.