Bulburin National Park bushfire recovery project
Fire impacts:
- 7,542 hectares of land burnt.
Flora and fauna prioritised for recovery efforts:
Bulburin National Park protects significant areas of rainforest, wet eucalypt forests, dry eucalypt woodlands and other types of ecosystems. The park provides critical habitat for many species of plants and animals, including threatened species. The impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires led to particular concern for the endangered silver-headed antechinus Antechinus argentus and Bulburin nut Macadamia jansenii, as well as the ringed thin-tailed gecko Phyllurus caudiannulatus which is listed as vulnerable.
Various species of invertebrates restricted to Bulburin National Park were likely to have been impacted by the bushfires and were included in this recovery project.
Insects
| Order | Species | Common name |
|---|---|---|
| Coleoptera | Castelnaudia sp. nov. | Predatory ground beetle |
| Cerabilia monteithi | Predatory ground beetle |
| Cerabilia amaroides | Predatory ground beetle |
| Nurus nox | Burrowing predatory ground beetle |
| Hemiptera | Neophloeobia bulburina | Flat bug |
| Granulaptera remota | Flat bug |
| Orthoptera | Gen nov. sp nov. | King cricket |
Spiders
| Order | Species | Common name |
|---|---|---|
Araneomorphae | Austrarchaea aleenae | Bulburin pelican spider |
| Desognaphosa bulburin | Bulburin flat ground spider |
| Birrana bulburin | Bulburin ground hunting spider |
| Heteropoda bulburin | Bulburin huntsman spider |
| Molycria bulburin | Bulburin ground spider |
| Wugigarra bulburin | Bulburin daddy long-legs |
Mygalomorphae | Namea calcaria | open-holed trapdoor spider |
| Namea callemonda | open-holed trapdoor spider |
The project’s recovery actions comprised the following:
Read the full report Bushfire Recovery 2020-2021: Priority actions for threatened species in Bulburin National Park, South East Queensland .