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It’s crunch time for endangered local butterfly
There is deep concern for the future of the Bulloak Jewel Butterfly, which has a very restricted habitat in a small number of areas to the west of Clifton. The Department of Environment and Science in Queensland has recently changed the environmental status of the Bulloak Jewel Butterfly from Endangered to Critically Endangered to align with Federal legislation. The next step after Critically Endangered is Extinct. The Department says the butterfly originally occurred at Mount Emlyn near Millmerran but has not been seen there since 1967. Since 2000 it has been
confirmed at two sites one being the Ellangowan Nature Reserve, the other Bendidee National Park north east of Goondiwindi. The Ellangowan site is on Main Roads land. An Environmental Officer with the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Peter Sparshott, told The Clifton Courier that all of the TMR studies in the last couple of years have shown that there are fewer butterflies flying now than previously recorded. “It has also been noted
that the two traditional flying periods are now not as distinct, indicating that the whole life-cycle of the butterfly has been altered and most likely to a significant change in climate - hot and dry,” Mr Sparshott said. He said that fact that the Bulloak Jewel is now considered to be Critically Endangered is not a good outlook for the butterfly and all of the other organisms that are co-dependent on it. Entomologist Don Sands OAM, an Honorary Fellow
at the CSIRO, is one of the original people to describe the butterfly in 1969 and has been doing the field work for TMR. He has previously suggested that drought was not kind to the Bulloak Jewel Butterfly. The State Department of Environment and Science has asked locals to keep an eye out for the butterfly settling among bull oak tree canopies and to report any sightings to the local Parks and Wildlife Office at Rangeville (Toowoomba).
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After being delayed by rain and COVID-19, Clifton Landcare group members met up at the secret Bulloak Butterfly Habitat Control Site to install a sign on the gate into the exclusion fenced area. The total exclusion fencing was erected in September 2019 by the Landcare Group with an environmental grant from the Toowoomba Regional Council. Photo, Pam Ruhle.
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