Threatened Species Update

The first full year of the Threatened Species project will be completed on March 31 with the submission of an Annual report. The project will continue for another 4 years, providing lots of opportunities to support local landholders restore and regenerate the wildlife corridor that spans the Coal Point Peninsula.

Since the project commenced there has been

• 5680 hours of volunteer time provided of which 3432 hour was landcaring
• 66 training sessions in landcaring techniques for 26 people
• 15 local organisations have been involved, including Coal Point Public and St Josephs Primary schools and Carey Bay Preschool.
• 1376 plants have made it in the ground with 90% survival rate
• 10.5ha of public bushland has been regenerated
• 6.6ha has been weeded
• 17 awareness raising events held interacting with 830 people
• 42 educational products produced including flora and fauna reports, 11 Chronicles, 39 updates on the blog, 2 maps, a movie, a banner, a brochure and planting guides

The Threatened Species project is providing the opportunity to garner and gather information about the local environment in one spot. Since the last Chronicle there has been new information uploaded for sharing far and wide including some static pages holding information about

• The plants in our Bigger Backyard containing a local plant list collated from surveys and planting recommendations for replacing weeds
• The animals in our Bigger Backyard holds the bird surveys, a map and a movie about habitat hollows
• A helping hand for the last stand shares programs you can get involved with
• The Changes in our Bigger Backyard contains the photopoint monitoring for the project