00:00My name's Warren Holder, I'm president of JEPPS, and I'm tour guide to this lovely Seven Mile Beach National Park
00:07just south of Jaroa.
00:09And what we're out to do is not only spot the other wildlife, but in particular to look at these
00:15greater gliders.
00:17Now, they're very, very special. They're called greater because they're a decent sized glider around about the size of a
00:24domestic cat with a tail longer than the body.
00:27And what we want to do is give people an experience of this area. It's such a beautiful area, so
00:34many different habitats, and this is what the gliders need.
00:38They need the hollows, which is so, so important to them, and the other thing they need is the food.
00:45Well, we've got both. We've got old-growth trees in excess of 300 to 400 years of age, which are
00:52ideal for making hollows, and not so many areas have trees that old.
01:01The National Park was named in 1973, and before that it hadn't been logged since the 50s.
01:07So that's why we've got this old-growth forest that other areas don't have.
01:13And it is holding the population, but if we don't expand on it, then inbreeding and other effects can happen.
01:24So what we're out to do is to increase the size of the national park, to increase more habitat, and
01:33keep the diversity of the species happening.
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