By Stephen Newbey. SWCC and Birdlife Australia recently ran two ran two cockatoo training workshops, one in conjunction with Katanning Landcare, and the other with Blackwood Basin Group. The training included: How to identify potential cockatoo nesting sites; Survey methods of nesting sites; How to use ‘Cocky Cam’ to...
A new app is available for citizen scientists to help monitor native wildlife in Australian cities and towns. The CAUL Urban Wildlife App can be used to record sightings of possums, gliders, butterflies, frogs, and flying foxes. Users from all states and territories in Australia can participate. The data you record about the...
More than 30 people from across the region joined Wadandi/Pibulmun cultural custodian Iszaac Webb at Barrabup Pool Nannup this week to learn more about native plants and trees and the pollination benefits to agriculture. Participants relaxed in a magnificent bush classroom fringed by tea-trees while Mr Webb of the...
Exploring the connection between Aboriginal culture and pollination is the focus of a SWCC workshop on Wednesday 5 June at Barrabup Pool near Nannup. Wadandi/Pibulmun cultural custodian Iszaac Webb of the Undalup Association will share his traditional ecological knowledge and understanding of the location with participants. SWCC project manager...
Applications for this funding have now closed. SWCC is offering grants for incorporated community groups to hold events that support community engagement in the conservation of the western ringtail possum, numbat, woylie, chuditch and malleefowl. All incorporated organisations operating in the South West NRM region are eligible to receive...
FAWNA: Western Ringtail Monitored Release Project Update By Suzanne Strapp, FAWNA Inc. President The University of Western Australia’s Associate Professor Roberta Bencini has been working with Sirtrack, a New Zealand company specialising in Radio Telemetry, to find a light and safe radio collar for the 40 western ringtail possums...
Farmers can learn more about the benefits, costs and risks associated with forage shrubs and what varieties best suit soils and climate at a SWCC workshop in Woodanilling on 16 April. Keynote speaker and animal research scientist Dr Dean Revell will share insights into his Eureka Prize-winning ‘Enrich’ project...
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There was a buzz of a different kind at Narrogin Primary School recently as 24 students enjoyed an innovative drone flying incursion by SWCC. During a 10-minute flight orientation session, the students took the controls of seven mini Mambo drones weighing 63 grams each and flew these within large...
More than 60 budding citizen scientists from Bunbury and beyond discussed black cockatoo and possum conservation strategies at a SWCC workshop in Gelorup this week. The crowd heard BirdLife WA Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo Project Coordinator Adam Peck explain why black cockatoos are threatened and why the Great Cocky Count...
The South West Catchments Council has launched an education campaign to help residents live harmoniously with possums and make their gardens safer for possums to play. Creating a possum-friendly garden with peppermint trees is one way residents can help protect the critically endangered western ringtail possum. Due to habitat...
