21 February 2012

Celebrate World Wetlands Day with WetlandCare Australia, here's how.....

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Winners of the 2012 WetlandCare Australia National Art and Photography Competition have been selected. The winners will be announced and presented with their awards, and the prize-winning art and photography unveiled for public display at the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra

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To celebrate World Wetlands Day, for the past 4 years, WetlandCare Australia has annually hosted a nation-wide art and photography competition. The competition aims to encourage everyone to explore, engage with and share local wetlands and waterways, and to have a chance to win great prizes. From January 11 to February 5 we are displaying a selection of winning works from the 2008 to 2011 competitions on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina.

WetlandCare Australia recently appointed Louise Duff as our first Hunter Region Coordinator.

Celebrate World Fisheries Day by joining WetlandCare Australia and partners to remove some of the rubbish that is poisoning our oceans, our fish and us. Come along to Helensvale on Sunday, November 20th 2011 from 9am -11am to help clean up an important saltmarsh area on the banks of the beautiful Lake Coombabah.

WetlandCare Australia is joining with the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority to host a wetland field day at the Saint Joseph’s College Colo Education Centre. 9.30 am – 12.30 pm Sunday 20 November.

WetlandCare Australia is hosting a Creek-to-Coast field day at Careel Bay in Avalon. Participants will enjoy a 4 km wetland walk from Avalon Beach along the creek to Careel Bay. The creek features 3 Endangered Ecological Communities: Swamp Oak Forest, Swamp Sclerophyll Forest and Saltmarsh. The tour will explore a mature stand of mangrove forest and look for migratory shorebirds on the tidal sand flats. 9.00 am – 1.30 pm Sunday 27 November

The WetlandCare Australia National Art and Photography Competition is still open for entries! We have recently heard from Anne O’Dea, a ranger in Kakadu National Park, about local community members getting together during the recent school holidays to make artworks at a culture camp for local Indigenous people.

WetlandCare Australia is working under the Aquatic WoNS Regional Partnership Project supported by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.WetlandCare Australia will focus on increasing community understanding and knowledge of the potential impacts of Salvinia - not only small infestations in farm dams but also in larger water bodies.

WetlandCare Australia joined other community groups and government organisations to celebrate National Water Week in Townsville recently.

WetlandCare Australia was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Wild Wetlands Day held at Grafton Regional Gallery on Thursday October 20. The day was organised to give Grafton primary school students the opportunity to immerse themselves in all things wetlands - art, photography, water bugs, birds and water quality!

See WetlandCare Australia at Sydney Olympic Park's Youth Eco Summit 19th and 20th Oct 2011.

WetlandCare Australia is pleased to launch two new categories for Indigenous artists in the WetlandCare Australia National Art and Photography Competition.

Selected winning art and photography from previous year’s competitions are also currently on display at exhibitions throughout regional NSW.

1 — 5 PM Thursday 17 November 2011 Hunter Wetlands Centre Sandgate Road Shortland

Wetlandcare Australia team up with Australian Seabird Rescue to pick up rubbish in the North Creek area in Ballina last month in preparation for the 2011 nesting season.

Celebrating Blue Gum Hills Regional Park 10th Birthday, Friday 30th September

WetlandCare Australia had a fantastic day celebrating 20 years of achievements on Sunday 28th August. Read on for a full event review.

Tools & Methods for Monitoring & Evaluating in NRM Frameworks, on-ground methodologies & new opportunities 29th & 30th November 2011, Citigate Central, Sydney

View some of our recent printed articles.

20 years ago a dedicated group of Wetland enthusiasts formed an Australian company called Ducks Unlimited. Their enthusiasm for wetland conservation saw the rapid expansion of this organisation. In 1996, the Directors adopted the trading name of WetlandCare Australia to portray the direction of the organisation in protecting, promoting and restoring our precious wetlands. As the leading Australian not for profit wetland conservation organisation, WetlandCare Australia now has a strong presence across the Eastern Seaboard of Australia and is looking forward to a very bright and positive future with further expansion planned throughout Australia.

Voting for the World Wetland Awards is now open!!

The Ramada Hotel and Suites Ballina Byron has joined with their Community Environmental Partner, WetlandCare Australia to sponsor the 5th annual WetlandCare Australia National Art, Photography and Short Film competition. The Ramada has donated generous accommodation packages as prizes in the competition, including two weekends at their Hotel and Suites in Ballina with a combined value of $960 and a 3-night stay at Ramada Breakas in Vanuatu.

WetlandCare Australia and Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council have been highly successful in undertaking the Restoring Jali Lands at Wardell Project. This has involved managing the ecological and biodiversity values of these culturally and environmentally significant lands with funds from Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority

Check out the positive actions WetlandCare Australia is undertaking to celebrate World Environment Day this year.

The honourable member for Page, Janelle Saffin, spoke in Parliament Monday about her support for WetlandCare Australia's Coastal20 Wetlands Project and the 40th Anniversary of the International Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

Experts from across Australia present at NRM Conference.

Armed with a GPS and camera, school students gave the Ramsar Wetlands in Bowling Green Bay its health check.

NQ Dry Tropics is funding activities on properties within the catchments that fl ow into Bowling Green Bay Ramsar Wetlands.

Environmentalist and co-founder of ‘Take 3’, Tim Silverwood thinks so, and is hosting screenings of the new, award-winning environmental documentary Bag It to help raise awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans.

WetlandCare Australia's Michael Pattison features in the Tussock Talk March newsletter.

The management of the ecological and biodiversity values of over 30 hectares of bush land approximately 15km south west of Ballina, located in Bundjalung Country near Wardell is continuing. The land is owned by the Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) and is representative of some of the most pristine and biodiverse ecosystems of the entire New South Wales coast.

What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife is a great book that clearly explains the how and why of conserving Australia's unique biodiversity. The book looks at the factors affecting biodiversity on farms with a particular focus on temperate woodlands (areas of scattered or widely spaced trees in temperate regions).

Page MP Janelle Saffin today delivered on an election commitment when she launched WetlandCare Australia's Coastal 20 project, a three-year pilot program to restore coastal wetlands from Kempsey to Gladstone in Queensland.

Friday, January 28, 2011 This book provides a comprehensive review of the water and habitat requirements of the unique floodplain wetland flora and fauna of the Murray Darling basin.

Join WetlandCare Australia and Hastings LandCare for a Barbeque with the Birds on Saturday February 19, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Join WetlandCare Australia and Macleay Landcare Network for Breakfast with the Birds at Boyters Lane, Jerseyville on Saturday February 19, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Australian's are discovering the diversity of wetlands across our great land this World Wetlands Day. WetlandCare Australia is making sure of this by working with the community to protect, promote and restore wetlands.

Come along to Breakfast with the Birds at Pitt Town Lagoon to celebrate World Wetlands Day on Saturday the 5th of February, 2011.

WetlandCare Australia has been at it again, mapping wetlands in the CMA regions of NSW. We have been working in partnership with the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority with funding from the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country initiative to map over 150,000 hectares in the Southern Rivers region.

Australia’s leading not for profit wetland conservation organisation, WetlandCare Australia, has announced the appointment of Ben Copeman as the organisation’s new CEO. Ben recently started in his new role with WetlandCare Australia with the aim of increasing the capacity of the organsiation to support the community in protecting and restoring Australian wetlands. Ben is based in the head-office in Ballina where his experience in managing environmental projects will assist WetlandCare Australia’s qualified wetland experts achieve innovative and scientifically based wetland solutions Australia wide.

WetlandCare Australia in partnership with the Council of Australian Museum Directors is launching a pilot project to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity. The project will focus on healthy estuarine wetlands, their importance to biodiversity, fish stocks and sustainable coastal communities on the mid-north coast. The project will be running throughout the months of November and December and hopes to get community members of all ages involved who use and enjoy our beautiful mid-north coast waterways.

This project involved the assessment of 277ha of coastal saltmarsh in the field and the sites compared with previous (2006) saltmarsh mapping which identified only 148ha at these & nearby locations. As a result the total area of Clarence estuary saltmarsh is estimated to be closer to 540ha, rather than the 290ha previously identified.

One of our sponsors, Vonmac, has just completed the installation of two environmental regulators in Kings Billabong for the Mallee Catchment Management Authority, near Mildura, Victoria.

Local communities will benefit from the announcement that was made on Friday by Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett (and local member for Page Janelle Saffin).

Funding is now available through the NSW Government's Environmental Trust and Habitat Action Grants Programs for wetland rehabilitation projects. WetlandCare Australia would be happy to support community groups interested in developing relevant projects.