Network Updates

News and announcements for Wodonga Landcare groups & coordinators, members, committee and staff.

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Presentation – Plant me instead: stop the spread of Albury-Wodonga’s worst garden escapees

Koalas of Castle Creek and surrounds

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We’re Hiring!

Wodonga Urban Landcare Network have an opportunity available for a casual project officer to help make a difference in our community.

With recent funding success, this position will be responsible for delivery of events, facilitation of discussions and delivery of presentations under the Gardens for Wildlife banner alongside our current team of project staff.

The project officer will commence ASAP and the project will conclude in November 2025. Additional project work is likely to eventuate in February 2025.

Expressions of interest close 8th September 2024.

For a position description, selection criteria and further information please contact Jo – 0428 672 713 or info@wodongalandcare.org.au.

Presentation – Plant me instead: stop the spread of Albury-Wodonga’s worst garden escapees

4 September @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Learn how innocent attempts to beautify your garden can be a disaster for parks, bush and native wildlife.

Gardens 4 Wildlife Project Officer, Lizette Salmon, will discuss our worst garden escapees, why they’re a problem, how they disperse and what you can do to stop the spread.

Tickets free, but bookings essential by 11pm Monday 2 September.

Venue: Robert Brown Room (ground floor), Albury Council Building, 553 Kiewa St, Albury.

Register: events.humanitix.com/plant-me-instead

For more information contact Lizette Salmon at g4w@wodongalandcare.org.au or ph 0468 320 647.

This event is hosted by Gardens 4 Wildlife Albury-Wodonga (a Wodonga Urban Landcare Network program) and Seed Savers Albury Wodonga, with generous support from AlburyCity.

Image: Italian lavender and watsonia garden escapees on Monument Hill, Albury. Photo by Danny Jones.

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Koalas of Castle Creek and surrounds

7 September @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Koalas have been recorded from Castle Creek, Leneva and the Baranduda Range. However this iconic species is facing a number of threats including urban development, habitat fragmentation and destruction, vehicle strike impacts, disease and predation.

Join ecologist Jim Blackney who will present on this fascinating species covering

Threats to Koala populations
Koala behaviour & habitat needs
Habitat restoration to support Koalas
Who to contact for injured Koalas
Koalas in our local area & how you can get involved in monitoring

The talk will be followed by afternoon tea and a short woodland walk in the bush surrounding the Leneva Hall.

Free, but registration required.

Book here: Koalas of Castle Creek

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Hidden Farm Field Day

8 September @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Hidden Farm’s steep and often rocky slopes are being transformed. The once barren paddocks are now interspersed with shelterbelts to protect stock, creekline revegetation is thriving and is slowing erosion and improving water quality and planned revegetation to enhance habitat for the Swift Parrot and Regent Honeyeater is literally blossoming. The property owners have demonstrated that there is no time like the present to get started on healing the land and their achievements in a short period of time are truly astounding.

Join us to hear their story, celebrate their success and be inspired to start your own landscape restoration journey.

Wodonga Urban Landcare Network in conjunction with Leneva Castle Creek Landcare are excited to invite you to a field day to look at landscape restoration in tricky terrain in the Castle Creek catchment near Wodonga.

Book here Hidden Farm Field Day

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We acknowledge and respect the Traditional Owners and First Nations people of the lands and waters of Wodonga and surrounds. We acknowledge the continued connection to land, water and community, their ability to care for Country and their deep spiritual connection to it.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging whose knowledge and wisdom has ensured the continuation of culture and traditional practices.

We are committed to genuine partnerships and engagement with Traditional Owners and First Nations people to support the protection of Country.

We are proud that Wodonga has retained its Aboriginal name and refers to Bulrushes found on the edge of waterways.