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Newsletter Summer 2023

Victorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc. — 2023-11-29T12:13:43+11:00

Been a while between drinks for the newsletter, but here is the latest edition to bring you all up to speed. You can access the newsletter as a PDF file here.

Landcare Census 2022: Late Jan/esrly Feb: Heads Up!

Victorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc. — 2022-01-03T22:09:41+11:00

A reminder that the Landcare Victoria Inc. Member Census will be conducted online in early 2022 to collect financial and membership data from our Member Groups. In previous years, this information was collected as part of the membership renewal process but will now be collected separately in the interest of simplifying renewals for our members. This census must be completed by all financial groups/networks.

Landcare Australia Film on Cultural Burning Practices in Australia featured by the BBC

Victorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc. — 2021-11-21T22:26:47+11:00

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The BBC is broadcasting audio and vision excerpts from a Landcare Australia film in three of its programs later this year. The focus is Traditional Owners and cultural burning practices in Australia.

The BBC productions include interviews with Victor Steffensen, a descendant of the Tagalaka people and Indigenous fire practitioner, explaining how cultural burns can help manage the land while reducing fuel load and destructive wildfires.

Cathedral Tree: Remember the Quoll trips?

Victorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc. — 2021-10-18T11:23:47+11:00

Here is a very disturbing post from Jill Redwood, whom many of you will remember from our Quoll hunting trips some years back. This was from work done by the Goongerah Environment Centre. Read and get angry as this is directly related to the damning Victorian Auditor-General's report on DELWP's lack of stewardship of our biodiversity in this state.

You can help Environment East Gippsland by donating to their work here.

Nest Boxes: We might do this?

Victorian Mobile Landcare Group Inc. — 2021-10-18T09:20:30+11:00

You might remember the Sugar Glider nest boxes we installed up in the Lurg Hills a few years back. You might be interested in nest boxes as a way to encourage more abundance and diversity of our local fauna on your property. Or you might be a secret woodworking enthusiast looking for a way to make your hobby have some environmental impact!

Either way, nest boxes and the art of nest-boxing is a highly skilled, species-specific sport. You need to have deep insight into the predator, feeding, breeding and physical attributes of your chosen beneficiary - not to mention a keen appreciation of the solar arc travel during the day and over the course of the seasons.