Greater Sydney Landcare Network

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Waverley Council, Office of Environment and Heritage, Greater Sydney Landcare Network, 20:20:20, Habitat Stepping Stone, Urban Ecologists and community members are about to embark on a three year Environmental Trust grant that aims to increase the habitat connectivity in the Bronte and Tamarama sub catchment.

Specifically, the Council would like to see the Superb Fairy Wren disperse through Council Parks, drainage systems and private gardens inwards from the coast again.

A total of 2-3000 people will be engaged by the collaborative of project partners, ultimately hoping that 250 of them will actively improve their habitat elements so that the Wren can travel and nest across a broader range again.

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Twenty young people gathered at Wooglemai Environmental Education Centre on Friday 8th December for an Intrepid Landcare Leadership Retreat in South West Sydney. The retreat lasted all weekend and aimed to empower young adults aged between 16 and 35, interested in making a difference and restoring their local natural environment. The retreat was organised by Greater Sydney Landcare Network in collaboration with Intrepid Landcare. Intrepid’s co-founders Megan Rowlatt and Naomi Edwards facilitated the event. [Read more…]

David King, of the Garguree Swampcare Group won the Indigenous Land Management Award at the recent Landcare and Local Land Services Conference of 2017. Garguree Swampcare is a group of Traditional Custodians based in the Katoomba area of the Blue Mountains. The Gully or Garguree is an important place for the local Aboriginal people being a settlement of the Gundungarra and Darug people. The group meets monthly to plant and weed at the Gully, and has many children involved, so that they grow up with an appreciation of the knowledge of the Aboriginal people, now with a wealth of regeneration experience.

Bev Debrincat, a founding member of Greater Sydney Landcare, was also a finalist for the Landcare Community Group Award, with her involvement in the Habitat – a nursery in the inner suburbs of Sydney. The Habitat community native plant nursery and food garden is proud to boast an active program of 144 volunteers engaged on a regular basis. The Habitat engaged an impressive 1467 people last year, including many school children, educating them in native plants, habitat corridors, growing their own food and concepts about caring for the environment. Currently the Habitat has a particular focus on bringing small birds back to Sydney gardens, as numbers have been steadily declining over time.

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