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This year’s Community Bioblitz is on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November from 6am ‘til late at the Four Winds site at Barragga Bay, south of Bermagui. Four Winds in partnership with the Atlas of Life, is proud to announce a collaborative and unique event over two fun-filled days of music, nature and shared creativity. Everyone […]
To celebrate National Bird Week, BirdLife Australia and the Birds in Backyards team have come together to bring you the third annual Aussie Backyard Bird Count between Monday 17 October and Sunday 23 October. Last year, more than 42,000 people participated, with over 1 million birds counted. Check out the results from the 2015 Aussie Backyard Bird Count here. You […]
A Hotspots workshop is planned for landholders and residents in coastal forests in the Nutleys, Baragoot, Cuttagee, Bunga, Murrah, Wapengo and Tanja areas on Saturday 15 October, 9am – 4.30pm at the Windsong Pavilion, Four Winds. The Hotspots Fire Project enables landholders and public land managers to work together to reduce bush fire risk across […]
Learn the skills and information you need to identify a range of common plants in this region. After lunch, try out your skills on a guided field walk in Bournda National Park. When: Thursday 13 October, 9.30am-3.30pm Where: Bournda Environmental Education Centre Botanist, Paul McPherson and Seedbank Coordinator, Karen Walker will use some of the most […]
Bruce Pascoe will be the guest speaker at the Far South Coast Landcare Association’s Annual General Meeting this year to be held on 13 October from 5.30pm at the Landcare Office at 71 Auckland St Bega. Bruce is a Bunurong man and a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria. His books include Dark Emu, […]
South East Local Land Services has Catchment Action NSW and Australian Government incentive funding available for land managers to undertake biodiversity, native vegetation and threatened species improvement projects within the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla shires. Projects should commence in October 2016 and finish in June 2017. Up to $50,000 is available for individual projects that: […]
If you missed recent news about a koala sighting in late August in the Wapengo catchment, within the new flora reserve, you can see photos and footage at this Vimeo link or read the Bega District News story here. If you feel inspired to join in the search for Koalas in the south east coastal forests, […]
With concerns increasing about the effects of commonly used herbicides in our landscape, and with many landholders asking what alternatives they can use to control weeds, the South East Wetland Carers Network organized a workshop on Low/No Chemical Weed Control at the end of winter this year. Here is a summary of some of the […]
Come along to the Tura Marrang Library (Tura Beach Drive, Tura Beach) on Friday 2nd September at 2pm to hear Geoff Robertson from Canberra talk about reptiles in this region and how using citizen science we can learn more about these wonderful creatures and how we might identify and conserve them. This is the second of a […]
Threatened Species Day is a national day held each year on 7 September to commemorate the death of the last remaining Tasmanian tiger at Hobart Zoo in 1936. It is a time to reflect on what happened in the past and how we can protect our threatened species in the future – a day to […]
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