WetlandCare Australia Sponsors

 

Business Partners

About WetlandCare Australia

WetlandCare Australia is a not-for-profit company dedicated to achieving healthy wetlands in healthy catchments.  WetlandCare Australia came into existence in 1991 because the founding members (many were wetland scientists) wanted to do practical things that would have long-term benefits for wetlands. WetlandCare Australia has a solid track record in managing and delivering a broad range of natural resource management projects that have resulted in improved environments and biodiversity. 

WCA is a registered charity, listed on the Australian Register of Environmental Organisations, and all donations are tax-deductible. 

WCA undertakes many small Natural Resource Management projects in consultation with landowners and authorities, as well as major programs such as the Coastal Wetland Protection program in QLD (with Conservation Volunteers Australia), WetlandLink communications, northern NSW Fish Unlimited, and the Sustainable Coastal Wetlands Project covering NSW coastal wetlands from Tweed Heads to Gosford. 

Our activities include:

• Wetland restoration and rehabilitation
• Wetland classification, assessment, mapping, monitoring
• Wetland protection and conservation
• Communications, education, conferences, workshops, seminars
• Building partnerships to improve wetlands

Practical on-ground actions include:

• Management of endangered ecological communities 
• Conservation stewardships
• Cattle exclusion fencing and off-creek watering
• Revegetation, including assisting natural regeneration where appropriate
• Sediment and erosion control
• Riparian management
• Biodiversity offsets including significant farm land use change
• Cell and crash grazing
• Feral animal control
• Acid sulphate soils management
• Stream bank assessment and stabilisation
• Drainage system redesign and hydrological manipulation
• Cane toad control activities
• Chemical, mechanical, and integrated weed control
• Water quality improvements
• Integrating swamp and farm management
• Implementing threatened species recovery plans