We’re fortunate to have a beautiful bushland campus filled with native flora and fauna – but please don’t feed the wildlife!

Feeding magpies and other wild, native animals doesn’t help them. Instead, it can cause them harm as they lose their natural foraging skills and become reliant on humans for food.

“Feeding wildlife negatively impacts their diet, social behaviours and potentially introduces disease,” says Leslie Morrison, CSE’s Nature Education and Research Facilities (NERF) Manager.

“Foods which are unnatural in the diets of our wildlife, or foods which are processed do not provide the right nutritional balance, are harmful, can cause obesity, malnutrition and disease. Please remember – magpies are wild animals and they need to be able to fend for themselves.”

If you see any spilled food or left-overs lying around campus, please lodge a Service One cleaning request.

More information about wildlife can be found here.