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This episode (recorded 2025 and early 2026) is the second of two episodes about the savanna glider - a marsupial of Northern Australia.

You’ll hear Thomas Henessay and two of his volunteers (Sam and Asha) with the Katherine Savanna Glider Project as they explain how they help gliders thrive - by building nest boxes for them along the Katherine River, and plan to monitor gliders by putting cameras in those boxes.

Also in this episode, West Arnhem Land elder Jill Nganjmirra shares her memories from when she was a child camping in the bush, when the men would catch gliders to eat the next morning.

You can find more information and links relating to this episode here, and catch the first episode (featuring scientists Alyson and Tegan talking about their research on gliders) here.

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(01:29) Describing the savanna glider

(05:06) How the project got started

(10:20) Night walks looking for gliders

(12:42) Asha tells how she got involved

(17:14) Recording and passing on data from monitoring

(18:53) Nest boxes

(25:19) What volunteers do

(27:14) Research questions / looking forward

(29:41) Land clearing as a threat to gliders and other wildlife

(31:41) Volunteers becoming more aware of local wildlife

(33:14) Other widlife spotted during night walks

(35:17) Cats as a threat to gliders

(36:00) Support given to the project so far

(37:51) How to join the project

(38:48) Tom's 2026 update

(41:34) Jill Nganjmirra - a West Arnhem Land perspective

(44:16) Closing

(46:10) Dandenong Station (musical piece)

Join us for the first of two episodes about the savanna glider - a marsupial of Northern Australia - with Dr Alyson Stobo-Wilson and Dr Teigan Cremona from Charles Darwin University.

You can find more info and links relating to this episode here, and see below for timecodes for specific parts of the discussion.

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(00:00) Intro

(00:30) Alyson and Tegan's research

(01:48) Describing the savanna glider

(02:38) Gliding distance and variation in body size

(04:59) Diet

(12:00) Where in Northern Australia can you find them?

(13:08) Predators of savanna gliders

(14:52) Gliders' ecological role as pollen spreaders

(15:27) Finding gliders at night

(17:50) Communication among gliders

(20:28) Social grouping

(22:46) Living in tree hollows

(23:14) Time in the pouch

(24:18) Lifespan

(24:45) Episode break

(25:30) Evolution

(27:59) Threats

(32:33) What land managers can do

(34:53) Indigenous people and gliders

(38:19) What citizens can do

(40:45) Monitoring to learn about Kimberley savanna gliders

(43:37) Being a savanna glider

(46:20) Outro

This podcast is produced by the Territory Nature Podcast Landcare Group, a group of volunteers supported by Landcare NT

Artwork for this episode: Sheduer Gondarra

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