Remote cameras are a useful way of surveying animals which are typically hard to spot, and have the added advantage of minimal interference with the animal. This handy guide explains how to set up and use the cameras, as well as how to download your photographs. Murrumbidgee Landcare has two remote wildlife cameras which are available…
This article describes these important but threatened birds, including how to identify them, where they live, and how to help conserve them.
Bushfire Survival Checklist This handy one-page checklist, developed through Murrumbidgee Landcare’s Women on Fire project, lists the key actions to undertake before, during and after a bushfire emergency. Edit our basic checklist to produce your own, ready to stick on the fridge or some other prominent location! Useful Resources This flyer has links to to…
This brochure provides a description of how to set up a photopoint site, to take repeated photo’s over time as a way of monitoring changes to your site. Produced through the Monaro Landscape Connectivity project.
This practical guide provides landholders and project managers with helpful techniques to check whether sites newly managed for conservation are on track to improve. The key to the techniques outlined in the guide is a shift in perspective from looking up at the trees, to looking down to the soils, grasses and wildflowers in the…
A description of the important role fungi play in our native ecosystems, as well as information on foraging for fungi.
Promoting events run by your Landcare group can have huge advantages in increasing the profile of your group, encouraging people in your local community to get involved, and possibly even helping you get sponsorship and support from local businesses. This guide provides tips and ideas on various promotional avenues, including: Print media: Posters and flyers…
This manual is a guide for members of the Landcare community who are either thinking about starting to use social media, or who have been using it for a while but would like to learn more. It covers the key platforms of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Produced by Landcare Australia, 23 pages
Greening Australia has developed a series of ‘how-to’ guides, designed to help those involved in revegetation or restoration works. These introductory guides are for people wishing to learn, or be reminded about, the basic principles and practices of planting trees, shrubs and grasses for revegetation. The guides describe eight key steps that need to be…
This video series features information, pictures and calls of a range of native bird species found in different habitat elements of the Box Gum Grassy Woodlands of our region. Produced through the Communities in Landscapes project, Ground Dwellers (8 minutes) Shrub Dwellers (7 minutes) Hollow Nesters (10 minutes) Canopy Dwellers (24 minutes)