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 :
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