This bushland valley in the northern Sydney suburb of Gordon has been home to grey-headed flying-foxes since the 1960s, with reports of occupation as early as the 1940s. The camp is a vital link in the network of camps that flying-foxes use as they move throughout their range, and the numbers roosting here have been monitored since the 1980s.
Ku-ring-gai Council is the landowner and manages the reserve with the assistance and advice of the Ku-ring-gai Bat Conservation Society. A Conservation Agreement between the Council and the NSW Environment Minister protects the site for flying-foxes in perpetuity.
A management plan guides Council and the community in caring for the reserve. View the current plan on Council's website.
The habitat restoration project has been recognised as an excellent example of co-operation between local government, the Ku-ring-gai Bat Conservation Society and the wider community. In 2008 it was highly commended in the "Top 25" Australasian Ecological Restoration Projects by the Global Restoration Network, a project of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
