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Saving our Species at Shannon Creek Dam
The ellusive brush-tailed rock wallaby is being magically captured in its natural environment at Shannon Creek dam. Several cameras have been installed on site at the dam to monitor threatened species under the NSW Government’s flagship Saving Our Species program. This conservation project aims to secure the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby in the wild in NSW for 100 years, engage local communities in its conservation, and encourage the NSW community to identify with it as a flagship for threatened species conservation. Shannon Creek is one of eleven sites in NSW identified by experts to conserve the species of brush-tailed Rock wallaby Council staff regularly check on the rock wallaby population to make sure they and their young are safe from threats of feral animals (wild dogs, cats and foxes). The site has been monitored since the late 90s and another threatened species the spotted tailed quoll (tiger quoll) is also present on site. The water storage facility is located on 4500 hectares with a significant portion managed under a Voluntary Conservation Agreement. It sits between two sandstone escarpments that provide habitat to many threatened native flora and fauna including a species named after Shannon Creek - the Shannon Creek Boronia (Boronia hapalophylla).
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