The volunteer team that has worked during the 2012 season had a hard time going through a particular area that consisted of thick wall of supple jack. It took us hours to go a few meters through this tough and flexible vine. After a week of cutting, the team made it through and met with another path. Everyone in the team received a chocolate fish, which for us is the pinnacle of acknowledgement. The trail has been named “Chocolate Fish.”

The accomplishment that I am most proud of is the completion of a grid of trails that covers 10% of the total sanctuary area. For three long weeks, the volunteer teams have worked very hard to cut the tracks, install the bait stations, and fill them up a few times. The result of this work has been captured on our night cameras and everyone could see the results almost immediately.

One of the major threats to the local flora and fauna is represented by an introduced species, the possum. Possums eat vast quantities of foliage every night, stripping trees bare and thus killing them. A method of assessing the health of the native forest is look up and estimate the percentage of sky that one sees through the foliage. My hope is that in ten years from now, on a sunny day, as I walk through the forest listening to the bird songs, I will not be able to see the sky at all.