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

OrderSpecies 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

OrderSpecies 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 (PDF, 2.6 MB) .