September, being Biodiversity Month, saw a lot of activity under Threatened Species Last Stand on the Coal Point Peninsula project.
The inaugural BioBlitz was attended by 21 locals who found out a little bit more about the local birds, local plants, night-time critters and habitat hollows.
Two presentations on wildlife corridors were delivered to the Carey Bay preschoolers who were well aware of the importance of trees and found out about how tree canopies help animals to move through the neighbourhood. (Congratulations to the preschool community for achieving excellence in their recent accreditation process!)
Stalls were held at Blue Gum Hills Biodiversity Day and the Living Smart Festival to help spread the word and connect kids with nature through seed craft and treasure hunts and a poster presentation was created for the State Landcare forum.
Weekly Landcaring has been continuing every Thursday with Burnage Reserve the recipient of the bush regen benefits and additional support from volunteers from Trees In Newcastle(TIN) and Lake Macquarie Landcare’s Green team in the past month.
TIN bush regenerators have been busy too… at the remnant bushland link between Hampton St and Laycock St, targeting freesias on the West Ridge Reserves and lending a hand at the BioBlitz. In the coming month they will be focussing on the threatened plant, Tetratheca juncea (TJ) which is in bloom at the moment so it’s easy to spot. The aim is to give the TJ a helping hand by reducing the local the weed competition.
If you know of any Tetratheca juncea patches that need help please make contact with Suzanne by email coalpointprogress@gmail.com and the help will be allocated.
Heading in to Year 2 of the project the focus for bush regeneration support will be shifting to assist local landholders who live adjacent to the public reserves with their weed management and corridor creation.
Several neighbourhood nodes have already been identified and weekday and weekend bush regeneration support is available. It is not too late to be included in the project. Support is available for bush regeneration, nest boxes and their installation and discount native plant purchases.
Additionally there has been a flurry of neighbourhood activity behind the scenes as some locals have been wondering how to protect the corridor around Carey Bay.
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