Project Report
| Dec 5, 2021
Spring Update
By Imogen | Partnerships Manager
We are enhancing local leadership across regional communities to support Wild Futures!
With the importance of empowering and engaging local leaders at the forefront of our first project, the NSW Government is supporting our new Wild Futures initiative aimed to regenerate the environment in bushfire-affected areas through the development of local leaders.
Why this new direction? CVA sees local leaders and community groups as the backbone of regional communities. They’re the pillars who can bring together others to solve problems from the ground up. The holistic approach for this project will develop a community co-designed program to empower and encourage greater capacity in local leaders, while both restoring fire-affected bushland and identifying processes that community members can implement to protect biodiversity and wildlife for future generations.
We will keep you updated over the coming months on this dynamic new project in regional NSW.
Best wishes,
Imogen
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Aug 6, 2021
Winter update
By Travis Scicchitano | EBB Project Officer
Dear supporters,
Most of this season completely ruled out with having on ground participation by our generous volunteers in the field. So we decided to take the outdoor conservation experience into homes around the world by using citizen science. We installed 5 infrared wi-fi monitoring cameras to help count our eastern barred bandicoots and all other wildlife native or pest. This was linked to the museum of Australia and living atlas of Australia to record all the sightings. This technique encourages the general public to investigate and help threatened species recovery from there lounge rooms. The data collected and recorded is used to build up information on how our native and threatened species are tracking. When the lockdowns started to happen our volunteers kept asking when can we help again, how can we help. They are a dedicated and persistent great part of our community. So we took it to them!
Keep safe and well,
Travis
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Apr 7, 2021
Autumn Update
By Imogen Boman | Partnerships Manager
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Here is the latest update from our Bandicoot guru Travis:
Well it was a quite dry summer at woodlands in general but we got the occasional large downpour of rain which kept things buzzing along. The good news it wasn’t An overly Hot summer. So with enough moisture in the ground there were signs of bandicoot diggings throughout the period. It also meant that the grasslands continued to grow and produce large quantities of seed. The wildflowers we planted last spring have also done quite well so we look forward to spring to see the bursts of colours the flowers will deliver.
We are excited to book in our first bandicoot monitoring session for over 18 months. This will be happening in late may. It’s going to be an extremely exciting trapping event due to that large gap of time due to Covid restrictions. Spotlighting bandicoots is becoming more frequent so we look forward to catching them for a health check.
The weed control always continues to improve grassland health. We have been fortunate to utilise the services of a working for Victoria team to help us out. There have been up to 20 people a day over 7 days spraying our serrated tussock. They have been following on from the work we did last year and also hitting new zones. This is really important to go over your previous work as it can take up to 5 years to exhaust the seed stock that’s in the ground. So by spraying it before it gets a chance to seed you effectively win that year. So that’s two years of winning for us. And with the natural competition of the natives thriving we are well on the way to eradicating some problem areas of the weeds.
That's all from us for now! As always, thank you for your continued support to make this project possible.
Best
Imogen, Travis and the team
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