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Regional Landcare Bushcare Forum 2015

March 28, 2015

The Birds & Bees of Bushcare: restoring and protecting habitat for native wildlife

WHEN: Friday 15th May 2015 8.30am to 3pm

WHERE: Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

REGISTER: Register online here

• Walks and talks

• Regional Landcare Award Winners announced

• Hear from other bushcare volunteers about their projects

• Network, share, eat and celebrate!

KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Sean Dooley, Birdlife Australia
Sean Dooley

Sean Dooley is editor of Australian Birdlife Magazine. He has written for for comedies like Full Frontal, Hamish and Andy and Spicks and Specks, and is author of the book The Big Twitch, the story of the year he spent blowing his inheritance to fulfill a childhood dream – breaking the Australian record for seeing more birds in one year than anyone else.

Sean is a highly entertaining speaker, with a unique insight into Australia’s birds.

This event is being run by Greater Sydney Local Land Services

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What GSLN will be doing in 2015

January 25, 2015

The GSLN committee met December 8, 2014 and decided to do a range of things, some of these are pertinent or of interest to members and potential members. Some of these activities are going to managed, explored or developed by sub-committees.

1) Judy Christie agreed to be our Chair.

2) We decided to create a newsletter and website greatersydneylandcare.org. The website would also have an online form for members.

3) A sub-committee was formed to look at benchmarking LGAs. Suggested measures by which LGAs could be benchmarked included percent of vegetation loss, grant  recipients, unsuccessful grant applications, 10/50 impacts and utilities. For data, NCC’s, LLS and the National Landcare (see below).

4) National Landcare Survey might help with benchmarking. The National Landcare Survey is an Australian Government activity being rolled out by the Regional Landcare Facilitator in each region that we may be able to make work in our benchmarking exercises.

5) Grants & Funding, we will draft a check-list to help us assess requests to act as sponsor or apply for grants on behalf of groups. We agreed that GSLN will focus on the “bigger picture”. We can also act as a conduit, informing members of other grants, as well as ask people to let us know what grants they are applying for so we can help look for opportunities to collaborate or apply for larger funding sources, or link with LLS funding. We will progress the above ideas as well as look for grant opportunities for GSLN itself.

6) Data Collection, via development of an app, the app will allow data collection in the field at landcare & bushcare sites, which is in a standardised electronic format and that can also be easily shared.

7) GSLN to be a co-brand on Source to Sea in May, 2015 to reflect the new Greater Sydney boundaries. The intention is to have events on the Hawkesbury, Parramatta, Georges and Hacking Rivers paddling (or house boating) the rivers and visiting local landcare / bushcare groups culminating in a regional bushcare workshop / forum.

8) Inform Landcare NSW of our existence, our intended projects and sub-committees and ask support we might receive. The GSLN Committee will look to appointing a delegate to Landcare NSW.

9) Publish our first newsletter by Australia Day if website and membership form are ready.

Filed Under: Events, Grants, News

Source to Sea

January 25, 2015

SourceToSea

From the 11th to the 17th May, Greater Sydney Landcare Network’s Source to Sea is happening as part of National Volunteer Week.

Source to Sea will include kayaking trips on the Georges, Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers  and a bike ride on the Cooks River highlighting the work of local groups and celebrating the many people who work on ground restoring our unique environment.

Source to Sea events are organised in partnership with local Councils, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Landcare, Bushcare and Friends of groups.

 

Filed Under: Events, News

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