Twenty-six endangered eastern bettongs have been relocated from the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve to secure facilities at Mt Rothwell in Victoria.
The eastern bettongs, which are part of Tidbinbilla’s threatened species recovery program, were evacuated by ADF aircraft to escape the Orroral Valley fire, which has been travelling west towards Tidbinbilla.
Efforts are also being made to safeguard other animals in Tidbinbilla’s threatened species recovery program.
Two critically endangered southern brush-tailed rock-wallabies and two yellow-footed rock wallabies, which require ongoing care, are being transferred to Taronga Zoo. More brush-tailed rock wallabies will be relocated from Tidbinbilla to Mt Rothwell by ADF aircraft, the government says.
A small population of critical breeding Northern Corroboree Frogs and Tidbinbilla’s captive koalas have also been transferred to purpose-built facilities at the ANU. This follows the successful relocation of seven platypus from Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve to Taronga Zoo at the end of December.
Animals will remain at their relocated facilities until conditions allow their safe return.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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