Ian Slade and Romilly Slade are the owners of Slades, a property situated in Dorroughby, New South Wales. The property is a wildlife sanctuary also used for wildlife rehabilitation and bushland regeneration education on camphor laurel removal. The main future goal for Slades is to establish sustainable habitat for wildlife on the land. Possums are soft-released on the property on a regular basis. Birds are also released on the property.
Slades spans 8 hectares including the plant community types of Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest and Lower Richmond Hills Dry-Subtropical Rainforest. The property consists of sloping land and a creek 50 metres from the boundary, bushland and cleared beautiful habitat for wildlife. Bush regeneration has been completed on the property in the last year, with a three-year plan in place to eradicate exotic weeds such as camphor laurels and privet and transition to 100% native vegetation to provide food sources and habitat for local wildlife. Other future plans for the property include the installation of nest boxes and laying hollows for breeding habitats. Slades features native flora species such as sandpaper figs (Ficus coronata), hoop pines (Araucaria cunninghamii), gums and she-oaks.
The property provides habitat for a range of species including laughing kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae), finches, owls, kites, eagles, ring-tailed possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), brush-tailed possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), squirrel gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis), microbats, flying foxes, short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), wallabies, pademelons, bandicoots, goannas, and snakes.
