Community & Business
4 October, 2023
Jondaryan hosts BioBlitz
Various habitats around Jondaryan will be the subject of a BioBlitz from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th October.
This activity is being organised by Habitat Jondaryan, an informal consortium of stakeholders including community organisations, landholders, nature study groups and government agencies.
The purpose of the BioBlitz is to develop an adequate baseline knowledge of plants and animals that live in woodland, grassland and creek habitats around the township of Jondaryan.
This area is already recognised as a hotspot for the threatened Painted Honeyeater and a rare butterfly.
Data gained during the Blitz should enable landholders and other habitat managers to protect and enhance biodiversity into the future.
Local residents may witness an increased number of vehicles and people around the town as experts and registered volunteers search for birds, bats, mammals, fishes, reptiles, insects, plants, and fungi.
Surveys will take place in some public areas, and the rest on private properties.
As this research requires close supervision, monitoring and reporting, participation is by invitation only.
Results will be published in The Oakey Champion when available.
Habitat Jondaryan’s Rod Hobson said the group would be keeping a particular eye out for these thirteen species.
Narrow-nosed Planigale Planigale tenuirostris (locally significant)
Spotted-tailed Quoll (southern subspecies) Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (endangered)
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta (vulnerable)
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata (vulnerable)
Spotted Black Snake Pseudechis guttatus (locally significant)
Condamine Earless Dragon Tympanocryptis condaminensis (endangered)
Shingleback Tiliqua rugosa (locally significant)
Long-legged Worm-Skink Anomalopus mackayi (endangered)
Salmon Striped Frog Limnodynastes salmini (locally significant)
Southern Purplespotted Gudgeon Mogurnda adspersa (locally significant)
Pale Imperial Hairstreak Jalmenus eubulus (vulnerable)
Darling Downs Giant Trapdoor Spider Euoplos grandis (locally significant)
Pepper Pot Fungus Myriostoma australianum (locally significant)
Vulnerable and Endangered are the declared conservation status of these species under Queensland legislation.
“Locally significant is an arbitrary term indicating that these species are known from the area but are believed to be declining there,” Mr Hobson said.
“They have no official status but are important species in this context on the eastern Darling Downs.”
