Wildlife habitat takes flight on Cumberland Plain

By Peter Hannam
Updated December 6 2014 - 10:13am, first published October 30 2014 - 2:28pm
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for  native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for  native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for  native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for  native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Landcare co-ordinator Lisa Harrold helped arrange the airlift of logs into the Mulgoa Nature Reserve to create a new home for native mammals. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith.  Photo: Wolter Peeters
Logs are lifted by a helicopter into the heart of the Mulgoa Nature Reserve near Penrith. Photo: Wolter Peeters

It wasn't quite the Berlin airlift, but for the last hold outs of native mammals and birds inhabiting the dwindling woodlands of the Cumberland Plain, it was a rescue mission of similar urgency.

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