Claire Cooper and Peter Kontis are the owners of Wirrimbirra, a property situated in Bingie, southeast of Moruya, New South Wales and with close proximity to Eurobodalla National Park. The property potentially features native Endangered Ecological Communities with pockets of native grassland, nearly 3kms of lake frontage and is situated less than 500m from the beach. Owners Claire and Peter are currently building a home on the property intending to live at Wirrimbirra in the future whilst also reserving the entire property as a wildlife sanctuary.
The property spans approximately 75 hectares across multiple ecological vegetation classes including the Endangered Ecological Communities of Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest and Bangalay Sand Forest as well as Swamp Oak Twig-Rush Forest, South Coast Low Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest and South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest , Coastal Saltmarsh and Littoral Rainforest. The property features native flora species such as elkhorn ferns, pencil orchids, Livistona palms, Casuarina, burrawangs (Macrozamia communis), smoothed-barked apple (Angophora costata) and Port Jackson figs (Ficus rubiginosa).
An extensive and growing number of wildlife are found at Wirrimbirra, including eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor), sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), squirrel gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis), brush-tailed possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ring-tailed possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), bandicoots, antechinus, echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus), birdlife such as nesting white-bellied sea eagles (Haliaeetus leucogaster), whistling kites (Haliastur sphenurus), magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen), swallows, azure kingishers (Ceyx azureus), sacred kingfishers (Todiramphus sanctus), sooty oystercatchers (Haematopus fuliginosus), pied oystercatchers (Haematopus longirostris), powerful owls (Ninox strenua), black swans (Cygnus atratus), pelicans (Pelecanus conspicillatus), New Holland honey eaters (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), scarlet honey eaters (Myzomela sanguinolenta), golden whistlers (Pachycephala pectoralis), cormorants, herons, grey cuckoo shrike, kookaburras, black and white cockatoos, wattle birds, myriad parrots/lorikeets as well as reptiles such as carpet pythons (Morelia spilota), red-bellied black snakes (Pseudechis porphyriacus), lace monitors (Varanus varius) and marine life like seals, stingrays, myriad fish, prawns and jellyfish. There is also a critically endangered population of greater gliders (Petauroides volans) between the property and nearby Congo less than 5km away.
