Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare - Return & Earn fundraising drive28 Nov 2018 (All day) For the next 3 months, you can help Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare raise funds by choosing to donate your Return & Earn refund to us!Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare are now listed as a donation partner on the Reverse Vending Machines at Woolworths Wagga Wagga North (Gurwood St) and Woolworths Lake Albert Road. Simply return your containers as normal, then select the option on the machine to donate your refund, and pick Wagga Urban Landcare as your donation partner.
Please help Wagga Landcare raise funds, by returning all your drink containers over the Christmas/New Year period!
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Glossy Black-Cockatoo Count - Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists 2nd March 2019
The total of birds seen in Narrandera Hills was 14, Brobenah 9, Cocoparra 12 and Rankins Springs 17 (In Narrandera, Cocoparra and Rankins Springs birds were seen at one dam). The largest range of other birds seen was at Brobenah by our gun birdwatcher, Max Sullivan Many thanks to all who participated and the landholders for assisting with the count and for allowing us access to their properties. Nella Smith |
Drought recovery workshop & BBQ - Tarcutta3 Apr 2019 - 4:00pmTarcutta Valley Landcare Group invites you to a FREE workshop and social BBQ. Hear from industry experts with useful and practical advice on how to approach the coming season, with plenty of time for questions.
Richard Hayes (Agronomist, NSW Dept Primary Industries):
Dione Howard & Kristy Stone, District Vets, Riverina Local Land Services:
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Calendar of Events 2019Our Calendar of Events for 2019 is now available! » read more |
World Wetland Evening – Thursday 31st January 2019
Fivebough Wetlands provided an ideal venue for our World Wetland Evening. We saw a good number of bird species (28x) including Freckled Duck, Red-kneed Dotterel, Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, Yellow-billed and Royal Spoonbills. Given we are suffering the effects of a prolonged drought it was great to see these birds calling Fivebough home. Sixty people took part in the workshop that covered such topics as wetlands in our region, birds, frogs, history, management and climate change impacts. We began the evening with a wonderful Welcome to Country by William Ingram. Erin Lenon spoke about some of the decisions that are made in order to provide water to wetlands. It is certainly not an easy job to know what water is required where with several delivery partners involved. These decisions include maximising environmental outcomes, not intending harm/adversely, using local knowledge and negotiating consent. |
Movies Under the Stars - Wagga2 Mar 2019 - 6:30pmWagga Wagga Urban Landcare, together with South Wagga Apex, are proud to present Wagga’s free outdoor cinema series for 2019!
Come along to a beautiful night under the stars, with a fun family movie to entertain you. The events are all free, so grab a rug and bring the family!
There will be refreshments and drinks available to purchase at each event, with all proceeds from sales supporting Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare.
Full details are available here: WWUL – Movie nights 2019
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Movies Under the Stars - Wagga16 Mar 2019 - 6:30pmWagga Wagga Urban Landcare, together with South Wagga Apex, are proud to present Wagga’s free outdoor cinema series for 2019!
Come along to a beautiful night under the stars, with a fun family movie to entertain you. The events are all free, so grab a rug and bring the family!
There will be refreshments and drinks available to purchase at each event, with all proceeds from sales supporting Wagga Wagga Urban Landcare.
Full details are available here: WWUL – Movie nights 2019
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Discover why we need wetlands - Leeton31 Jan 2019 - 5:00pm Where are the MIA Wetlands?What’s a Ramsar site?
How do we manage a wetland?
What lives there?
Climate change impact?
Explore the wonderful world of wetlands, and how we manage them into the future!
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ROCK OF AGES with Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists
It was in their spacious tearoom/conference centre that Mal welcomed us with a mandatory video on mine safety. Apparently, with the stringent obligations of OH&S attached to Australian mines, too much safety is never enough. And this colossal enterprise is, happily, Aussie owned and operated. Our host then gave us an informative talk on the mine and its history; along with lots of operational facts and figures. This is indeed a major industrial complex just 40 or so kilometres north of sleepy West Wyalong. Then he escorted us on a tour of the mine; hard hats, hi-vis vests and safety glasses for all. We looked, for all the world, like a party of desperate politicians canvassing for regional votes! |
Snakes Alive! - Canberra14 Jan 2019 (All day) Meet and greet your reptilian neigbours!The annual Snakes Alive! is on again in Canberra. There will be live displays, feeding and handling of snakes, lizards, frogs, turtles and crocodiles.
This is the major event of the year for the ACT Herpetological Association and is aimed at both children and adults. It is a fun, entertaining and educational event on the value of reptiles in both the wild and as pets.
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After a very extended dry period we had up to 50 ml in the Narrandera, Brobenah and Cocoparra Ranges a fortnight before the census. We thought we would struggle to find dams with water in them at all and that was the case in Binya State Forest and the Cocoparra National Park. The Narrandera Hills and Brobenah had some dams with water. This could actually have been a good thing as it concentrated the birds into one area. In the end we looked at dams that we had looked at in previous years which is a good thing for ongoing data. If anyone heard a begging youngster though I would like to know about it and add it to my records.
The World Wetland Evening was part of a global event organised to celebrate the positive input wetlands all over the world have in cleaning up river systems, buffering floods, providing habitat for a large diversity of wildlife and providing a wonderful place for us all to visit and enjoy.
Mal Carnegie is a rock: a tall, tough country boy born and bred in this same unforgiving land which hosts the Evolution gold mine, the epicenter of our outing on November 24, 2018. He is also the rock upon which the success of the Lake Cowal Conservation Centre is assured, which has its home adjacent to the gold mine.
Available for download or loan to Landcare groups and Networks.