This spring, turning off your outdoor lights will save more than your electricity bill. It could also save a critically-endangered mountain-pygmy possum. Here's how.
This spring, turning off your outdoor lights will save more than your electricity bill.
But supply of their main food source, Bogong moths, has plummeted from 4.4 billion to only a few hundred last year according to Dr Marissa Parrott, a reproductive biologist with Zoos Victoria who is leading the mission to repopulate the possums.Credit:“There’s nothing else like them in the world. They wake up from hibernation, breed, then females need to get the right level of nutrition so they can produce milk for their babies to survive in their pouches.
The dramatic drop-off in moths making it south appears to be due to the drought in NSW and Queensland, she said.From September 1 to late October, Zoos Victoria will spread awareness of itsIt says every unnecessary outdoor light switched off from southern Queensland, through NSW and in northern Victoria will help the moths complete their sometimes thousand-kilometre migration.
Zoos Victoria chief executive Dr Jenny Gray said she was in discussions with the government to get buildings like Canberra’s Parliament House on board with the campaign.
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