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Do you have a wetland or farm dam on your property? Would you like to know more about improving water quality and biodiversity? Want to know how to tackle common wetland weeds with and without chemicals? How can your wetland or dam affect property health? Come along to a one day workshop about: the importance […]
Take two informative walks through the different types of rainforest which exist at Narooma – the Wagonga Inlet Littoral Rainforest and the Box Cutting Rainforest with Botanist, Jackie Miles. Learn to identify the native rainforest plants and the threatening weeds. Land Services Officer, Peter Gow will be discussing a range of weed control techniques. When: […]
Foxes are Australia’s number one introduced predator and threaten the survival of a wide range of native wildlife and many threatened species. Non-flying mammals weighing between 35g and 5.5kg and ground-nesting birds are at greatest risk but foxes also prey upon reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Foxes have also been identified as a vector of weed species such […]
The first section of the Bundian Way, one of the old Aboriginal pathways from the coast to Mt Kosciuszko, was opened last week at the Aboriginal ceremonial ground at Cocora Beach in Eden. The opening included performances by Gulaga Dancers as well as guided tours along the new Story Trail which forms part of the coastal […]
If you’re a new landholder who is thinking about managing your native vegetation with the help of livestock such as sheep, goats or cattle, or just wanting to start out in livestock production, there are several free information days being run by South East Local Land Services over the next few months to give you […]
In early March 2011, Karen Walker led a Native Seed Propagation Workshop for 16 landholders from the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla Shires. Karen is the for the Far South Coast Landcare Seedbank Coordinator. Held at Riverside Nursery in Bega, the workshop started with a guided tour by Coordinator Heidi Ashburner. Participants learnt about planting mediums, […]
Local botanists led three inspiring vegetation identification field days for the CMN last Spring (2010). These explored three very different landscapes across the Shire, in Towamba, Brogo and Tathra and brought together folks who share a passion for native plants and land management. Towamba was the perfect place for our Dry Grassy Woodlands day with […]
Vegetable dinosaurs are alive and well in the deepest, shadiest gullies of our local rainforests. Why does the Bolwarra, a dinosaur of the plant world, live in this part of the landscape? Local botanist Stuart Cameron explains this and more in a short version of his talk at the Tathra plant identification field day, held […]
A CMN workshop to build your own habitat box will be held in Bega on Saturday 20 February 2016 from 9am – 3pm, led by local carpenter/builder Jo Saccomani. If you are a landholder who would like to encourage Sugar Gliders or micro bats to live and breed on your property, you are invited to come and learn how to build […]
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar. The theme for World Wetlands Day in 2016 is Wetlands for our Future: Sustainable Livelihoods. To celebrate this day in the Bega Valley, […]
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