How a baby greater glider became a 'a symbol of hope' for a southeast population doing it tough

Meet the new parents: Pip and Milo in their hollow in May 2023. Photo: WWF-Australia.

Plenty of mums are run off their feet looking after their babies – and ‘Pip’ isn’t an exception.

The difference is, she’s a greater glider living in a tree’s hollow in Tallaganda Forest. And unlike you, she and her family are being watched by a 24/7 livestream.

Australian National University (ANU) research fellow Doctor Ana Gracanin’s livestream started beaming out to the world from a secret location within Tallaganda National Park, in southeast NSW, in 2024.

It’s been a window into the world of greater gliders, which are large gliding marsupials native to eastern Australia.

They use hollows (naturally forming holes in trees) as a safe place to sleep and breed.

The camera caught mum Pip and dad Mi