The 2021 annual Coordinators Choice Award has been announced as Dumaresq Landcare Group member Peter Metcalfe.
The announcement was made at the recent 2021 Annual General Meeting of the organisation.
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The 2021 annual John Winter-Irving Bequest recipient has been announced as local Armidale Rivercare Group founding member, Mr Bruce Whan.
Southern New England Landcare has awarded the 2021 John Winter-Irving Bequest to Bruce Whan with congratulations for his long-term service to the Armidale community, and particularly Dumaresq Creek.
Sixteen Landcare, Rivercare and Interest group representatives gathered online at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 10th November 2021 for the 20th Annual General Meeting of Southern New England Landcare Ltd.
Due to Covid-19, the meeting was held online for the first time ever.
Re-elected President, Richard Daugherty said, "We were unsure how many would attend the AGM as an online meeting, given members usually love getting together to network in person, but it was a great success and ran very smoothly."
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting can be downloaded here.
At last week's Annual General Meeting, members of Southern New England Landcare ratified new membership subscription categories and prices, making memberships for Individuals free.
"There are now only two categories, Corporate and Individual, making the membership subscription process more streamlined and easier to understand," said Karen Zirkler, Executive Officer at Southern New England Landcare Ltd.
With so much water in our landscape this year, Southern New England Landcare has witnessed an unprecedented level of interest in Mother of Ducks Lagoon at Guyra.
The lagoon is full, and she hasn’t been this way in at least 15 years.
Images of Mother of Ducks Lagoon are being posted all over local Facebook pages, bearing witness to her beauty.
In accordance with the constitution of Southern New England Landcare Ltd, the following nominations have been received for consideration at the Annual General Meeting to be held at 7.30 pm on 10th November online:
Southern New England Landcare recently finalised delivery of a two-year National Landcare Program funded project that assisted 200 landholders in our region to adapt to the challenges being presented by climate change.
Southern New England Landcare will host an interactive webinar as part of the ongoing Northern Tablelands Koala Partnership Project on Friday 29th October.
The focus of the webinar is how to re-create koala habitat and provide practical guidance to participants.
“We will be letting landholders know about the opportunities to be involved in this project,” said Des Andersen, Koala Conservation Project Officer with Southern New England Landcare.
“Landholders are able to seek financial assistance to recreate Koala habitat on their properties and contribute significantly to helping Koalas survive in this area for the next 100 years,” he said.
“There are many benefits for rural landholders through creating koala habitat, including the biodiversity benefits for agriculture and for conservation goals” he said.
The webinar will cover known and practical methods to ensure participant’s revegetation or enhancement efforts are successful.
John Lemon, a local ecologist from JML Environmental Consultants, will speak on Koala feed trees and provide information on Koala dietary preferences, and the importance of providing a consistent vegetation community structure.
John says, “We’ve learnt a lot by researching Koalas on the Northern Tablelands in the last few years and look forward to passing on some of this knowledge to assist landholders in their planning and implementation of Koala habitat on their properties”.
The Annual General Meeting of Southern New England Landcare Ltd will be held at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 10th November 2021.
All members and friends are invited to attend and the meeting, which due to COVID restrictions, will be held online.
Please note there was a typo regarding the date in the 2021 AGM Business Papers sent to members last week, listing the day as Thursday 10th November. It should read WEDNESDAY 10th November. The link to the online meeting is contained in the top of the business papers and the link will open at 7.15 pm to assist anyone needing technical help.
Please RSVP your attendance to our office or phone 6772 9123 by Monday 8th November 2021. We look forward to seeing you there.
Southern New England Landcare is currently working with local film maker David Waugh of Verso Design to produce 2 short films, a landholder training film, and a community awareness film, to assist the public in identifying the Birds of Prey of interest and reporting sightings of them.
Watch out and report sightings of:
Little Eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides),
Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura),
White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) and,
Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis)
These films, funded by the Northern Tablelands Local Lands Services, will become a useful resource for regional citizen scientists and allow landholders and the public to participate in the Northern Tablelands Local Lands Services and University of New England’s 2021/22 Birds of Prey Monitoring and Stewardship Project.
To report sightings contact: Euan Belson enquiry.northerntablelands@lls.nsw.gov.au 0408 623 839, Candice Larkin clarkin8@une.edu.au 0431 594 421 or Steve Debus sdebus@une.edu.au 0409 779 766
Image: Little Eagle, courtesy of David Waugh Verso Design
One of our most proactive, affiliated Landcare groups, ZNET Uralla, has just completed another project, "The Elephant in the Woodland". This was a three year project on sustainable firewood funded by NSW Environmental Trust.
Southern New England Landcare Ltd hereby notifies members of a change in company auditor. Due to the establishment of Roberts & Morrow Audit Services Pty Ltd as an Authorised Audit Company, Michelle Paull is seeking the permission of ASIC to resign as the auditor to the Company at the date that ASIC consent is received.
Our "Landchat" showcases the achievements of our members and their organisation.
Read some great landcare stories including our participation in the week-long Regent Honeyeater Roadshow with a field day near Bundarra, and the touching tribute to Beth Williams OAM, who was a leader and stalwart of the Bundarra-Barraba Regent Honeyeater Recovery program. Friends of Barry Munday Reserve Landcare group are featured too, highlighting the many goals they've kicked since their inception last year.
Members receive their full colour, hard copy in their letterbox to read at their leisure. Download your copy of Landchat 119 January - June 2021 (1.54 MB) now. Or follow this link and scroll down for previous editions!
Recently, Southern New England Landcare identified a need to reprint three popular publications that have proven so informative and useful to members and friends, that supplies were fully depleted.
The SNELandcare office resumed operating from Monday, 13th September, with a few more changes to ensure we continue to adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines, for the safety of our staff and the wider community.
If you wish to visit the office, please call to book an appointment. A suitable time will be arrranged to meet the member of staff you need to connect with. Please phone 02 6772 9123. Some of our staff may still be working from home for the moment.
If you have recently been to a COVID hotspot, we ask you please DO NOT visit the office. Call us instead and we will do our best to assist.
When you visit the office, you will be required to strictly adhere to the current public health advice:
- Scan in with our QR code on the door or sign in manually.
- Masks must be worn (unless medically exempt).
- Hand sanitiser is available at the door – please use as you enter, then again before you leave.
- 1.5m rule applies, please keep socially distanced.
Thank you so much for your understanding and we look forward to a return to business as usual soon!
‘Just Add Water’ was a fantastic community get-together, held at the Kingstown Hall on Saturday 19 June, providing social support for residents of the Upper Gwydir and neighbouring areas, including Balala, Brushgrove, Retreat, Watsons Creek, Kingstown, Torryburn, Yarrowyk and Bundarra, in the wake of drought, fires and Covid.
Minister Littleproud has confirmed three finalists in the 2020 Bob Hawke Landcare Award.
Southern New England Landcare would like to congratulate Andrew Stewart from Victoria, Justin Kirkby from New South Wales, and James Walker from Queensland for becoming finalists in this prestigious award.
On a cold morning on Saturday 29th May, some 30 local landholders from around the Dangarsleigh, Castledoyle and Kelly’s Plains localities attended Southern New England Landcare's latest landholder engagement event focussed on Koalas.
A series of events to empower Southern New England communities has just completed successfully.
The eight events supported landholders affected by the devastating drought and bushfires with information and access to service providers such as animal welfare, pests and weeds, community wellbeing and mental health, where the service providers came to their local district.
The Armidale community currently has the opportunity to give feedback on the Armidale Regional Council’s draft Koala Management Strategy.
The purpose of this strategy is to encourage the conservation, management and rehabilitation of areas of natural vegetation that provide habitat for koalas to support a permanent free-living population over their present range in Armidale local government area (LGA).
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