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August CMN Newsletter
Category Archives: Native animals
Celebrating Threatened Species Day and Biodiversity Month
In the lead up to Biodiversity Month the NSW Department of Planning and Environment’s Biodiversity and Conservation Division are celebrating the conservation work of the South East region by serving up some science with your sandwich each Wednesday. From Greater Gliders surviving fires, to innovative ways to connect with landholders, citizen science projects and the […]
Land For Wildlife Across the Region
Land for Wildlife is a voluntary property registration scheme for landholders who wish to manage areas of wildlife habitat on their property. Land for Wildlife encourages and assists landholders to include nature conservation along with other land management objectives. Land for Wildlife is free to join and is not legally binding. Registration in the scheme […]
Threatened Species in the News
Earlier in July, the 2021 State of Environment Report was released by the Federal Government. The report makes for disturbing, although unsurprising, reading. Almost every indicator used to assess the health of Australia’s land and water paints the picture of a poor and declining country: an extinction crisis, limited access to drinking water, increasing weather […]
Great Southern Bioblitz
This year between the 22-25th October, Australia and 14 other countries will join together in the largest scale citizen science biodiversity survey in the southern hemisphere! 96 local areas including the Bega Valley have signed up to participate. Using the iNaturalist platform, the Great Southern Bioblitz (GSB) is an annual opportunity to participate in a […]
Gang-gang and Glossy Black-Cockatoo Projects
SAVING OUR THREATENED SPECIES These are two of our most loved parrots and their numbers are declining rapidly. We don’t want to lose them in our region so the Atlas of Life is asking you to help with important research. In order to establish their main habitat areas and their habits, we are asking people to record […]
Habitat Hollows with new drilling technique
If you’re interested in creating habitat and breeding hollows on your property and have been thinking about nest boxes or creating hollows using a chainsaw, have a look at this ABC News story about fast tracking the creation of tree hollows for wildlife using a purpose-built drill. We’ll share more information about this technique in […]
Supporting Woodland Birds
In his article “Bush for Birds, Everyone Can Help”, Andy Taylor from Local Land Services looks at the plight of our small woodland birds, many of which have become threatened with extinction and offers a range of things we can do to help these amazing and precious birds to survive and flourish on farms and in […]
Aussie Backyard Bird Count 2020
The 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count will be held from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 October. This is one of Australia’s biggest annual citizen science events, with more than 88,000 people participating last year and nearly 3.4 million birds counted. It’s a great way to connect with the birds in your area and to contribute to BirdLife Australia’s knowledge of Australian […]
Wildlife Videos After the 2018 Fires
After the Reedy Swamp, Vimy Ridge and Tathra bushfire of 18 March 2018, David Gallan created two short videos documenting moments in the lives of some of the animals in the forest around him in the year that followed the fire. These videos give an intimate window into the lives of these animals, including bandicoots, possums, gliders, insects, frogs, wallabies […]
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