How to make bandicoot-friendly suburbs
Join the community helping to protect our nosey neighbours! Find out what actions you can take to make your home, street, and suburb safer for bandicoots.
Southern Brown Bandicoot
Protecting our nosey neighbours
At Cranbourne Gardens we are lucky to be the custodians of a large population of endangered Southern Brown Bandicoots. With a few small actions, we can all improve their chances of surviving and thriving in South-East Melbourne.
Proudly supported by the 'Nature next door' Melbourne Strategic Assessment Program.
All about Southern Brown Bandicoots
What is a Southern Brown Bandicoot? What makes them so important? And why is their poo so sparkly?!
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Why Southern Brown Bandicoots need our help:
Fifty years ago, many residents of south-east Melbourne would often have seen the long, pointy nose, humped back and stumpy tail of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, snuffling around searching for bugs and fungi to eat. As Melbourne has grown, our now nationally endangered bandicoots are getting harder to find.
Thanks to removal of habitat, introduced predators like foxes and cats, and big, busy roads isolating populations, our bandicoots are in trouble. If we don’t take some serious action quickly, there’s a real chance we might lose them forever.
Southern Brown Bandicoots dig small conical holes in search of food. Just one Southern Brown Bandicoot can turn over 3.9 tonnes of soil in a year, increasing nutrient circulation, improving water penetration into the soil, and helping to spread beneficial fungi.
Need to get in touch?
Contact:
Southern Brown Bandicoot Outreach Officer
03 5990 2262
Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
