Make the greater glider Marsupial of the Year!

The greater glider is Australia’s largest gliding mammal.

With excellent night vision, they swoop from branch to branch, sometimes as far as 100 metres at a time, searching for juicy leaves upon which to eat. They steer using their tails, which are longer than their body, and their babies love to hitch a ride on mum’s back.

They can range in colour from dark chocolate brown to almost entirely white and communicate through scent-marking.

Greater gliders were once common throughout the forests of Queensland, NSW and Victoria, but populations have crashed by more than 50% in the last 20 years due to habitat destruction and bushfires. They were listed as an endangered species in 2022.

To combat this decline, WWF-Australia is actively working to protect and restore greater glider habitats. WWF and its partners have installed hi-tech nest boxes to provide homes for greater gliders as they recover from the 2019-2020 bushfires. WWF is also campaigning to protect one of the last strongholds for greater gliders in Tallaganda State Forest. When logging began in Tallaganda in 2023, WWF and other conservation groups took immediate action and successfully petitioned for a stop work order to protect their habitat.

Help protect these incredible creatures! Your donation can make a significant difference in preserving their habitat and ensuring their survival.

Donate now to protect the greater glider and crown it as the Marsupial of the Year!

Image credit - © Josh Bowell