Last night Basalt to Bay held it's annual AGM/recruitment drive in Port Fairy. A nice crowd of 21 people turned out and from that we gained a few more volunteers for local Landcare groups.
It was a great night, with a fantastic meal from head chef, Dianne from the HUB in Port Fairy and presentations by Peter Forster from the Environmental Farmes Network and Inka Veltheim from the SW Brolga Research Project.
Folks enjoyed some serious networking and we all enjoyed the talk by Peter and Inka. We were all much the wiser about the benefits of gaining carbon credits from biodiversity planting and the benfits that landholders gain from improving local biodiversity and shelter for stock and crops. We also learned that the southern Brolga currently faces endangered status in Victoria and that key threats to it's ongoing survival include fox predation, disturbance from Wind Farms and clearing of habitat by landholders.
Thanks to the Department of Planning and Community Development and Glenelg Hopkins CMA for sponsoring the night.
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