At Inala we are often presented with injured or orphaned wildlife to care for until they can be rehabilitated and returned to the wild where possible. The Inala Nature Reserve provides a wonderful safe haven to 'soft release. Rehabilitated wildlife. Funds donated to the Inala Foundation help to purchase essential supplies such as formula and pellets.
These are often Bennett's Wallabies and Tasmanian Pademelons, but the list of rehabilitated species is varied and impressive and includes the likes of Brown Falcon, Tasmanian Pademelon, Long Nosed Potoroo, Antechinus, Echidna, Little Pygmy Possum, Brush-tailed Possum, Little Penguin, and even Blue-tongued Lizards!
We work with the Bruny Island Environmental Network on methods of reducing driving speeds and improving driving behaviour (particularly at dawn and dusk when wildlife is most active).
The whole Inala team collectively stop at every roadkill we see on Bruny and check the pouch of dead females for any surviving orphans. We then remove the body a good distance from the road. The reason for this is three fold:
(1) it is safer for the vehicle traffic without a body on the road,
(2) it is safer for the scavenging mammals who may come to feed on the body at night and;
(3) it is safer for raptors that may come down to feed and get hit by vehicles before they can fly away.
When the orphans are ready to be released into the wild they are gradually soft-released onto the 1500-acre Inala Nature Reserve where they can have a choice of suitable rich habitats with strong food and shelter resources. We ensure that there is grass as a food source year round by keeping the open pasture areas well tended.
We work with the Bruny Island Environmental Network on methods of reducing driving speeds and improving driving behaviour (particularly at dawn and dusk when wildlife is most active).
The whole Inala team collectively stop at every roadkill we see on Bruny and check the pouch of dead females for any surviving orphans. We then remove the body a good distance from the road. The reason for this is three fold:
(1) it is safer for the vehicle traffic without a body on the road,
(2) it is safer for the scavenging mammals who may come to feed on the body at night and;
(3) it is safer for raptors that may come down to feed and get hit by vehicles before they can fly away.
Inala Nature Reserve is home to one of the largest Forty-Spotted Pardalote populations in Tasmania.
Forty-spotted Pardalotes hold a very special place in our hearts as they were they were the original motivation for Tonia to buy the first Inala property. The little colony peeping over the fence drew her attention to their predicament.
The Eastern Quoll is the smaller of the two species of Quoll in Tasmania, and one of six extant Quoll species from Australia and New Guinea. Like all species of Quoll, they are carnivorous marsupials with spotted coats, however, the Eastern Quoll occurs in two distinct colour morphs; cream and near black.
With a declining population estimated to comprise around 500 individuals, Swift Parrots are a species living on the edge. They are listed as critically endangered by both the Australian federal government and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).
Inala Nature
320 Cloudy Bay Road, Lunawanna
South Bruny Island 7150
Tasmania, Australia
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EV2203UKFI0166
Phone: +61 3 6293 1217
Inala Nature acknowledge and pay respects to the palawa people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land, lutruwita, and acknowledges Elders - past and present. Inala Nature Tours and the Inala Foundation Inc are located on lunawanna- alonnah, also known as Bruny Island, the traditional land of the Nuenonne people.
