Wildcare group Friends of Bass Strait Islands (FoBSI) will be running 2 working bees in 2016 to continue our boxthorn control effort in the Furneaux Islands. The first will run from May 23rd – June 5th. The focus will be on completion of boxthorn removal from the entire Wybalenna site on the western coast of Flinders and from the adjacent muttonbird rookery […]
Student Volunteer Recruitment Drive Southern Tasmania Wildcarers – have you got an hour or two you can spare next week (or the week after) to help us at the University of Tasmania Orientation Week events? We have a spot booked for: Mon Feb 15 Sandy Bay Campus Central Mall 10:30 am – 2:30 pm Tues […]
The Wildcare Annual General Meeting will be held at 11.00 am on Saturday, 19 March 2016 in the Gnomon Room at the southern end of the Wharf Pavilion, Crescent Street, Ulverstone. It is located on the Leven River. Further advice on guest speakers will be communicated via the Wildcare website. RSVP to ceo@wildcaretas.org.au on or […]
Friends of Narawantapu or in other words the Sea Spurge Weeders We are a new group and we had a fantastic response at our first working bee as a new Wildcare group and on our first ever attempt to rid the park of the dreaded sea spurge, which was very successful. Successful if you count […]
Goat Hills With 8 places for volunteers in the vehicles available it is always going to be unknown if there will be room for everyone, but ton this occasion we had the number to fill the spots and so no one had to walk up the steep track to Goat Hills. The return trip is […]
The Get Outside Wildcare Branch held their first outing of the year to the beautiful Fortescue Bay. Fifty- five people in total came for the day mostly young people aged between fifteen and twenty -five. The day was spent enjoying the beach, each other, walking, burying people in the sand, soccer, swimming and fishing. […]
Volunteers on the 24th January clean up sighted three Spotted Hand Fish. This is the first occasion they have been seen during our program. We have picked up and returned many Live-bearing Seastars and it is great to know that Pipeclay Lagoon is also supporting the Spotted Hand Fish. Live-bearing Seastar found on a clean […]
Working Bee at Melaleuca Janet Fenton (Friends of Melaleuca) March at Melaleuca is working bee time. From Friday 20 to Sat 28 the place was a hive of activity for FoM’s 7th working bee. Our Ranger Ian Marmion was whisked away on a helicopter to supervise the dismantling of MONA’s controversial installation near Forest Lag, […]
The section of track between the Lake Fenton carpark and the lake had not been trimmed since it was created about 10 plus years ago. Although it was obvious that vegetation was encroaching on the track there was still sufficient width for walking along, but it was also showing plenty of signs that it needed […]
Event to be held at the following time, date and location: Saturday, 30 January 2016 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (AEDT) Grote Reber Museum, at the Mt. Pleasant Radio Telescope Observatory Richmond Road Cambridge, Tasmania Australia Snappy Science talks, childrens entertainment, wetland bird walk, dogs breakfast and many more events! FREE! but please book […]