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Group Details
"Welcome to Wongy Landcare"
Our Landcare Group forms part of the head waters of both the Clarence and Macley rivers. Our primary interests are soil deterioration and the loss of biodiversity, trees and subsequently farm productivity.
Our priorities include:
- Weed Control (including Matt Rush)
- Pastures
- 'Cause and Effect'
- Grazing Management, vegetation regeneration and feral animal control and
- Education
Environmental Issues
We have some serious environmental issues that we are addressing, including:
- Matt Rush control; through improved grazing management
- Feral animal control
- Biodiversity Loss
- Farm productivity reduction
- Erosion control
Projects
We are addressing our environmental problems through several key projects:
Revegetation of degraded areas
Control of Mat Rush (Lomandra sp.)
Soil field days
Our really neat DUNG BEETLE project
Our recent project summary:
| Year | Project Title | NHT Funding $ | State Funding $ | Group & Other $ | Total $ | No. Trees | Area regen/remn. (ha) | Degrad'n addressed (ha) | River stab/prot (km) | Fence built (km) |
| 96-97 | Wongwibinda Native vegetation management project | 19408 | 750 | 49804 | 69962 | 13690 | 92 | 16.75 | ||
| 97-98 | Wongwibinda Dung Beetle Establishment | 6,800 | 990 | 6,670 | 14,460 | Purchase dung beetle colonies | ||||
| 98-99 | Wongwibinda New member native veg group | 7,550 | 20,932 | 28,482 | 6,400 | 5.80 | ||||
| 98-99 | Wongwibinda Erosion cont. for catchment stability | 5,264 | 5,835 | 11,099 | 2.00 | |||||
| Totals | 39022 | 1740 | 83241 | 124003 | 20090 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 22.55 | |
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