Basalt to Bay has recently learned that it was successfull in an application to Landcare Australia, for the energy infrastructure group Jemena (http://www.jemena.com.au/) to fund our Rejuvinating Tozer Reserve project. Jemena will provide $30,000 towards the project and local staff, who will participate in on ground works at the start of October.
Funds will be used towards :- Coordination
- Fencing
- Weed work
- 6,132 seedlings
- Creating a track with flora/fauna signage
- Mapping equipment & mapping conultation
- Training of volunteers
- Jemena sponsored coach tour of environmental works across the catchment (to be held in February 2010).
A big thank you to Francis Jeon-Ellis from Landcare Australia for facilitating our application and Jemena for sponsoring this project. We look forward to engaging with Jemena in this project and to a fruitfull relationship with them.
This week marks National Landcare Week - a celebration of two decades of the Landcare movement. Basalt to Bay will be celebrating this week with planting days in Toolong (involving local members of the B2B network and local TAFE students) and a planting day at Hawkesdale Common (involving students from Hawkesdale Common, local members of the B2B network, HADDAC and members of the Hawkesdale Community).Basalt to Bay Landcare Network would like to thank all our members for the fantastic work they have done in this past year and all of our supporters. A special thanks to :- Tim Bligh, Jane O'Beirne, Karen Wales, Bruce Mirtschin, Waye Bryce & Don McTaggert
- Kristie King
- The Glenelg Hopkins CMA, especially Margie Finnigan, Mary Johnson, Tania Parker, David Nichols and Tony Lithgo
- Demo Dairy
- Brenton Barsch
- Marty Gent, Matthew Ebden and Bernadette Northeast
- Students from Port Fairy Consolidated Primary School, Hawkesdale College, Warrnambool Primary School and Brauer College
- The Warrnambool Motorcycle Club
- Mobile Muster
- Jemena
- Landcare Australia, especially Francis Jeon-Ellis, Alison Raymond and Shivani Jayasighe
- The Department of Community Development
- Rosse Colliver and his Landcare Network Readiness Forum
- The Department of Sustainability and Environment
- Mark Doueal and the Department of Primary Indistries
- Karen Foster from o2 Media
- Tim Umney of Umney Media
- Dean Suckling from Agri-Doo and Heytsbury Landcare Network.
In further news, in a few weeks time we will be sending out invites for our Kick Start Your Reserve Coach Tour and our local Landcare forum, Landcare : Past, Present and Future. Stay tuned.
John Feehan will be down here for some more Dung Beetle Workshops. John will be at Allansford on the 7th September and Glenormiston on 8th September.Flyers can be found here :http://www.dungbeetles.net.au/Invite%20ACME%20BEETLES%20Aug%2009.pdfhttp://www.dungbeetles.net.au/Invite%20Glenny%20BEETLES%20Aug%2009.pdf .
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