HALF A YEAR LATER

Recently landed: Half a year later

Following in the ringtail possum scamper-scamper, lightly scamper footsteps of Ada, Agnès, Hilda, and Violet (from the first group), and Sid, Noodles, Feeney, and Finnius (from the second group), on Sunday, it was Dante, Kitri, Norris, Norbert’s moment to move from our outdoor enclosure to our purpose-built soft release enclosure, located, this time, on a private property on Staughton Vale. Dante, Kitri, and the brothers Norris and Norbert came into care six months ago, on the 15th of March, which is easy to recall as Kitri was named after the female lead in The Australian Ballet’s performance of Don Quixote, for the delicate, fast skip of her lapping technique as she drank.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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22nd of September, 2023

Working with Janine and her band of Koala Clancy members and volunteers, we plan to release two groups of eight ringtail possums a year, either side of the blaze of summer and the scarcity of food winter, so as to give the possums the best possible chance of weaving long, wild lives.