Bags for Burramys

Program Overview

Mountain Pygmy Possums need your help!

Healesville Sanctuary are part of a captive breeding program to ensure there will always be a breeding colony of these very cute high country marsupials.

Bags for Burramys aims to empower students to take direct conservation action to alleviate the threat of climate change. Often students feel inadequate to halt the progress of the causes and effects of climate change. This program ensures that the students feel empowered, see the results of their work and be influential in their communities. 

After visiting Healesville Sanctuary and learning about the threats to Mountain Pygmy Possums, students are given the call to action to get involved in reducing climate change by recycling plastics. 

They sort their plastics and bring numbers 2, 4 and 5 to the Sanctuary for recycling and Replas will then recycle them to produce outdoor furniture for our sustainability garden.

To find out more about how to get involved in Bags for Burramys contact Learning Experiences on (03) 5957 2818

Further information
Take Action_Bags for Burramys Col.pdf  ( 92.4 KB )

See Also

  • Australian Endangered Species

    Come to the Sanctuary and meet some our endangered species and learn more about the issues facing wildlife and what we can all do to help.

  • Mountain Pygmy-possum

    Find out more about the Mountain Pygmy Possum Conservation Program

Did you know?

  • The Mountain Pygmy Possum weighs about 40g (the same as a Caramello Koala)
  • They will double this to 80g just prior to hibernation.
  • They are nocturnal and Australia's only hibernating marsupial.
  • They were thought to be extinct until a single male turned up at a Mount Buller Ski Lodge in 1966
  • Females live higher up the mountainsides than the males who will venture up to find them during the spring breeding season. (They can usually expect a frosty reception)

Find out more about the Mountain Pygmy Possum Conservation Program here