Living in Harmony with Possums: Tips for Protecting Your Garden
Learn how to protect your garden from possums while living in harmony with these native animals. Experts share their tips on wildlife-friendly methods to deter possums from your garden.
Possums are highly polarising animals, with people either describing them as cute backyard visitors or noisy home invaders wreaking havoc on gardens.
If you're growing your own veggies, fruit and flowers there's nothing more disheartening than finding chewed off crops and stems destructed by the pesky nocturnal marsupial.
So, what can you do to protect your garden and live in harmony with the native animal? Experts recommend taking a wildlife-friendly approach.
Possum populations thriving in urban areas
Common brushtail possum populations are thriving in many urban areas but declining in arid and semi-arid zones of Australia, according to Catherine Herbert, professor of wildlife management at the University of Sydney on Gadigal Country.