Gardening with natives

Time to Garden!! This is Wildcare Friends of the Margaret Mitchell Garden’s second working bee and we will spend the time re-planting and spreading mulch. All Wildcare members, and anyone interested in joining us, are welcome. We hope you can come and help us. Day: Sunday 18th September. Start: 1.30pm (for just a couple of hours) […]

UTAS CARES – looking for partners in 2017

UTAS CARES works to develop sustainable collaborative arrangements between UTAS staff and students and a broad range of grassroots ecological community volunteer (CARE) groups. It is interested in promoting both volunteer and research (citizen science) engagement opportunities that connect the two. Recently, in partnership with UTASLife, we have joined with Kingborough Council, Natural Resource Management […]

Easier navigation on the PCT

The friends of the Penguin Cradle Trail have been hard at work in the past months making navigation a bit easier across the Black Bluff Range. Check out what they have been up to in their newsletter. Click here to download

Summer volunteer opportunities

Parks and Wildlife Service is calling for EOI for the following summer volunteer programs Cape Bruny Volunteer Caretaker Program 2016 17 Info and Application Form <click here> Cockle Creek Volunteer Caretaker Program 2016 17  Info and Applications Form <click here> Melaleuca Volunteer Caretaker Program 2016 17 Info and Applications Form <click here> Mount Field Volunteer Caretaker Program 2016 […]

Friends of Maatsuyker Island Wildcare AGM

Tuesday 13th September, 2016 Join us for the Friends of Maatsuyker Island AGM and annual dinner. Derwent Sailing Squadron, Marieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay. AGM commences at 6.00 pm, with  dinner served at 6.30 pm. If you would like to stay for dinner please arrive at the DSS and order by 5.45 pm. RSVP to wildcaremaatsuyker@gmail.com by […]

Yorktown weeding

On Monday 25th July our little band of Friends of Yorktown met for a working bee. Our aim was to check on our heathland area which over the last two years we have been supplementing with nursery grown stock plants. We have had very few losses, which is pretty amazing considering the recent dry Spring […]

Summer on Bruny Island ?

The Quarantine Station Volunteer Caretaker Program on Bruny Island provides opportunities for volunteers to enjoy living on a peninsula extending into Barnes Bay in a heritage listed cottage originally built for the Medical Superintendent in 1884. Volunteer Caretakers will provide a physical presence at the Quarantine Station, open the Station for visitors from Thursday to […]

Another new face to Wildcare Board of Management

Sally Simco

Sally is a keen bushwalker and kayaker and Wildcare volunteering well suits her interest in learning about the natural and cultural history of remote areas of Tasmania while making a contribution to conservation projects. Sally, and her husband Michael, first took up a Wildcare volunteer position as Cape Bruny Lighthouse Caretakers and Observers in 2013. Since […]

Inroads Into The Thick Of It

For years we have known of a thick patch of Erica at Goat Hills but have confined our efforts to just contain any expansion from the site.  An offer was received from NRMSouth for a Green Army group for two days, and the chance to tackle this problem area meant a quick acceptance. Green Army […]

Too Much Water

Friends of Mt Field

Planned working bee for Saturday 16 July 2016 View from near the playground to the bridge over the Tyenna photo from Brendan Moodie Suddenly the water rose in the Tyenna River and the site we planned to work went under.   Dam wall at Lake Fenton photo from Brendan Moodie Our new bridge at Lake […]


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