Learn how to build a bandicoot bungalow and help these cute critters by installing several in a patch of bush.

Join members of the Susannah Brook Catchment Group and environmental enthusiast, David Broadhurst, to learn how to build homes for Southern Brown Bandicoots (also called Quenda). Providing artificial habitat for these small mammals can assist their survival in areas where they face threats such as predation by introduced species like foxes, and where there may not be sufficient suitable natural habitat. The bungalows built and installed during this session will help local bandicoots in the Susannah Brook bushland.

As well as teaching you how to build the homes this session, we will go over why they are designed the way they are, where to place them, basic bandicoot behaviour and considerations such as fire risk. The bungalows can be built relatively low cost and using salvaged materials. This session will be hands-on; attendees will try their hand at building and installing homes and will leave with a material and instruction sheet to enable them to build bandicoot bungalows on their own property or with their environmental volunteer group.

Please note: a walk of approximately 500m is required to access an appropriate site for the bungalow to be built by the group.

Please book in as spaces are limited.
Please note that this program is suitable for adults and children aged 12 years and over, and is an informative presentation and interactive activity. Photographs and videos may be taken of the event.