Rushworth Field and Game Club members help a Rushworth P-12 student make a hen house.
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Rushworth Field and Game Club is seeking community donations of plywood and light-coloured exterior paint to create nesting boxes for wildlife displaced by recent bushfires.
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Through their Hands On Practical Education program, Rushworth P-12 College students will work with members of Rushworth Field and Game to learn valuable skills while crafting about 100 nesting boxes.
With the loss of old-growth trees in recent bushfires, conservation officer Graeme Wall came up with the idea to build nest boxes and contacted representatives from Euroa Arboretum, who provided a list of species they would like boxes made for.
“We want to make sure that the old-growth trees that have been taken are replaced with something,” Mr Wall said.
“No doubt, like the losses of native species after the fire could be as high as 80 or 90 per cent.”
The dedicated students and club members have already completed parrot boxes and are now crafting boxes for microbats, squirrels, sugar gliders, ringtail and brushtail possums, boobook owls and phascogales.
Member Charlie Cerchi plants a parrot box in Girgarre, as part of the club’s previous project to increase breeding in the area. Photo: Rushworth Field and Game.
The group is looking for donations of new and recycled plywood between 9mm and 15mm.
Whether you’d like to craft boxes at home, or would prefer to drop by the club on a Wednesday morning with paint or plywood donations, every contribution will help bring wildlife back to the area.
To arrange a donation, call 0407 940 658.
Mr Wall said the club aimed to deliver the completed nesting boxes to Euroa within five to six weeks.
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