Friday, November 7, 2014

Skink habitat constructed

For these that have been walking over the pedestrian bridge and wondering what we have been building with all those rocks, well it is a habitat for our native copper skinks. Skinks get hammered by domestic cats and mice in urban areas.  The plan is that the skinks will increase in numbers by having protection among the rocks from cats and protection from mice by our poisoning program. There will be further planting around the rocks to finish off the overall design.

2 comments:

Gerard Kelly said...

Great, plant Dianella nigra (Native blueberry)
for food.

Mangaiti Gully Restoration said...

Thanks for your feed back. We planted 26 Dianella nigars on the 17th June 2015