Arabella Eyre

Leadbeater’s possum field officer at @ZoosVictoria. All views and opinions are my own 🌳

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

Looking for some good news on your Tuesday morning? We have been busy translocating and monitoring lowland Leadbeater's possums. So far the trial results are looking positive and we are thrilled to share it with you.
@ZoosVictoria @GuardianAus

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance https://t.co/cmBnLBk9FB

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@bradsey @kyliesoanes We use a FLIR T530 it works really well, can tell (on cold days) if a nest box is occupied from the ground, can tell if some hollows are occupied (depending where the nest is inside the hollow) and records photos/videos

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@EcologyEllen @EcoEmcg @AndrewGeschke Keen to hear too! But I’m not at ESA this week 😭

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@bradsey @LaToyaJamieson Would be wrong not to share the artists impression

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@astobowilson @StuDawson @EuanRitchie1 @NewsomeTM @BronFancourt @matt_w_rees @DianaF1080 @Judy_Dunlop We have had some up for over a year. Primarily in areas where there is our focal species (critically endangered possum) but we don’t want to attract predators in to the area unnecessarily.

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

Democracy coffee here at Alphington Primary School with @sammyjcomedian

[Zoos Victoria @ZoosVictoria]

1/3. BIG conservation news for the lowland Leadbeater's Possum! 📢 A translocation trial is underway that involves moving a third of the world’s population of Critically Endangered lowland Leadbeater’s Possums to a new forest home in Victoria’s north east.

[7NEWS Melbourne @7NewsMelbourne]

Zoos Victoria has come up with a plan to save a rare possum species. https://t.co/5zYfOfohG3 #7NEWS

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@itsnotfairman @ZoosVictoria @GuardianAus So far so good up here! A tiny but beautiful patch of swamp forest

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

Looking for some good news on your Tuesday morning? We have been busy translocating and monitoring lowland Leadbeater's possums. So far the trial results are looking positive and we are thrilled to share it with you.
@ZoosVictoria @GuardianAus

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

‘We can’t afford to get this wrong’: relocating Leadbeater’s possums is risky – but it’s their only chance https://t.co/cmBnLBk9FB

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@pelentini @ZoosVictoria @GuardianAus I’m surprised the photo looked okay, it was a long day and I felt like a frizzy-haired mess!

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@sarahmccg @trentpenman @BennettRen @WomenScienceDay Congrats!!

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@bradsey @DeanIngwersen Possum ticklers!! 🥺

[Diversity & Distributions @consbiog]

How do you decide where to search for undetected populations of a cryptic, and critically endangered species across vast areas? Using a combination of SDMs and decision support tools – this paper led by @ArabellaEyre shows you how https://t.co/z9D22zx5qM

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@pelentini And thank you @pelentini for being such a patient and dedicated supervisor! It was a mammoth amount of effort from everyone on team poss.

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@timbawden @consbiog It's a really interesting area. There have now been quite a few LBP searches up there to no avail. But the story of a possum shot off the roof of a gold miner's hut lives on. Watch out for abandoned mining shafts!

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

It's been a while in the making, but the paper from my masters has been published in @consbiog!
We paired SDMs with decision tools to direct surveys for the critically endangered Leadbeater's possum outside its range. https://t.co/CNEwC6Wpz4

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

All the thanks in the world go to my amazing supervisors/team poss @pelentini, @njbriscoe, Dan Harley, @Lindy_Lumsden, and @leomccomb. @ZoosVictoria @UniMelb

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

@KateLSenior @DrShaneRRR Mine was 48 hours, I got it back this morning. Other friends who got tested at different places at about the same time still haven’t received their results, even though they had positive RATs.

[Leo McComb @leomccomb]

Pleased to say that my masters research has been published in @AnimalConserv. We examined the thermal suitability and occupancy of artificial dens for Leadbeater’s possum across habitat types and during temperature extremes

@ZoosVictoria @UniMelb
https://t.co/aiUO42z2vk

[Arabella Eyre @ArabellaEyre]

Have any other ecologists tried making a camera trap with a #RaspberryPi? I’m interested to see how well the infrared cameras work and if they had many problems in the field