Koolewong Flora Reserve
AERIAL BAITING: 26 August - 8 September 2024
Koolewong Flora Reserve is a protected area that occupies the western block of McPherson State Forest on the western edge of the Central Coast region of NSW. It is designated as Flora Reserve #202. The reserve protects important habitats for several threatened species, including gang-gang cockatoos, giant burrowing frogs, glossy black-cockatoos, koalas, powerful owls, varied sitellas, white-bellied sea eagles, and yellow-bellied gliders.
The baiting activities undertaken at Koolewong Flora Reserve are managed by the Bulga office of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Type: aerial baiting
Target species: dingoes and foxes
Dates: 26 August - 8 September 2024
Contact office: Bulga - (02) 6574 5555
Notes: NPWS claim that this program is “designed to minimise predator impacts on wildlife, especially threatened species, and to minimise the impact of wild dogs on neighbouring stock”.
