Plants & Animals

Kingborough’s diverse landscapes support a variety of bushland types, which provides habitat for many native animals. With an abundance of bushland reserves within and surrounding our urban areas, there is endless opportunity to explore and experience native plants and animals.

There are many reserves throughout Kingborough to explore. Council manages these in partnership with Landcare and Coastcare groups. A list of our reserves can be found on the Recreation & Facilities map.

Our bushland areas, coastline and many of our reserves contain a high diversity of native plants; trees, shrubs, sedges, lilies and irises, climbers, grasses, herbs and orchids.  Information on a sample of species in the municipality is available in the Kingborough Plant Species List.

Our bushland, urban fringes, coastline, waterways and the D’Entrecasteaux Channel provide habitat to a wide variety of native mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, fish and invertebrates (including insects, spiders, crustaceans and molluscs).

Habitat refers to animals homes, where they eat, sleep, nest and breed. Various insects live among fallen leaves and branches on the forest floor, beetles live in rotting logs, frogs live among sedges, rocks and logs beside creeks and dams, lizards live under rocks or logs, bandicoots nest in dense clumps of sedges, quolls live in rock dens or rotted out tree roots, little bush birds live in small tree hollows, owls live in bigger tree hollows and possums live in even bigger tree hollows. Bushland that looks messy, with fallen branches, leaves on the ground, dead branches on trees, dead standing trees, logs, rocks and tree stumps, contains many different homes. Bushland that has lawn like grass with no logs, stumps or fallen branches and leaves contains very little habitat. Leaving bushland messy outside your fire management zones, means providing habitat for your local animals.

Resources about native flora and fauna

Kingborough Bird Walks – Brochure

Bush Birds – Download Brochure

Tree Hollows – Download Brochure

Swift parrots need you to look after your blue and black gums – Download Brochure

Have you thought about creating a native habitat garden?

A range of information is available from Council to help you get started, including plant suggestions and garden design ideas.

GROW LOCAL – a guide to local native plants suitable for gardens in southern Tasmania.

NATIVE GARDENS – a planting and landscaping guide for the southern region of Tasmania.

URBAN REFUGES – Design your garden for eastern barred bandicoots.

Council’s Natural Areas and Biodiversity Team are more than happy to help with any questions you might have about creating habitat or managing native vegetation on your property.

Beekeeper Registration

It is vital that every beekeeper across Tasmania is registered as registration is one of our most powerful tools to protect against pests and diseases that threaten our bee population.
Registration of beekeeping activities is compulsory for all Tasmanian commercial and recreational beekeepers. Beekeepers can register or renew their beekeeper registration using
Biosecurity Tasmania’s online system called BeeTAS.

BeeTAS
Biosecurity Tasmania has implemented BeeTAS to assist beekeepers with managing their registrations. BeeTAS can be accessed at www.nre.tas.gov.au/beekeeper-registration.
The online system allows beekeepers to:

  • register or renew their registration;
  • maintain their apiary site information;
  • record inspection details, record hive purchases, disposals and hive movements; and
  • upload training certification and laboratory results.

 

Already a registered beekeeper?

If you have registered as a beekeeper in Tasmania since December 2022, your information has been automatically carried across to BeeTAS.

You can log into BeeTAS using the email you provided when you first registered. If you have not re-registered since December 2022, you can
now easily do so with BeeTAS!

Need further assistance?

If you require further assistance with registration, have limited online access or have any other
BeeTAS queries, please contact Biosecurity Tasmania at honeybee.biosecurity@nre.tas.gov.au

For more information on BeeTAS, visit: https://nre.tas.gov.au/beekeeper-registration