Join Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare for a Community Planting Day at Table Top as part of the Connecting Landscapes project. Last year, stock-exclusion fencing was installed on the property through the AlburyCity Land Management Incentive Program. This year, a donation has covered all plants, materials, and refreshments for the day, with additional funds contributing to some […]
Join us for Planet Ark’s National Tree Day as we continue Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare’s Connecting Landscapes project, proudly supported by AlburyCity. This planting will take place on a site covering just over one hectare, located directly across the road from the area planted on 19 July. The Connecting Landscapes project aims to restore the critically […]
This planting is part of Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare’s Connecting Landscapes project, proudly supported by AlburyCity. The goal of the project is to restore the critically endangered Grassy Box Gum Woodland by creating habitat corridors that enable wildlife to move more freely across the landscape. Covering approximately one hectare across four nearby sites of varying size […]
Connecting Landscapes Project – Community Tree Planting Day This planting is part of Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare’s Connecting Landscapes project which has been funded by AlburyCity. The project aims to revegetate critically endangered Grassy Box Gum Woodland creating habitat linkages for wildlife to freely move along. This site is over 18ha in size and extends along […]
The Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group (WTLG) are after expressions of interest from landholders willing undertake on-ground revegetation works on privately owned E3 (Environmental Management) land, which falls within Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare’s boundary. The Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group (WTLG) have actively been revegetating critically endangered Grassy Box Gum Woodland across the Thurgoona, Wirlinga and Table Top […]
Sloane’s Champions – Citizen Science Monitoring Program Sloane’s froglet (Crinia sloanei) is a small (15-25 mm) threatened frog now only known from four areas in NSW. Two of the largest populations are located in the Thurgoona-Wirlinga area of Albury, and in and around the town of Corowa. The NSW Government recently funded a Saving our […]
Our funded project has finished but with the help of some new “Friends”, the annual January monitoring was undertaken for the 4th consecutive year. Thank you very much to “Rod’s gang”. What did we do? On the weekend of January 14th 2017, the 30 nest boxes along the Lake Hume foreshore between “The Pines” and […]
A relaxed afternoon and evening of wildlife activities were enjoyed at Lake Hume Village together with our AGM on Friday 4 November. 45 people attended participating in bird walks, squirrel glider nest box monitoring and a spot light walk. A range of wildlife were observed including: 10 squirrel gliders (in nest boxes), white bellied sea […]
Purpose: Increased habitat for Squirrel Gliders and woodland birds (as identified in the BioBlitz). Funding: This activity was supported with funding from the Commonwealth’s Caring for our Country Community Action Grant. Albury City Council provided lunch and 1.8 metre Hume and Hovell cloned tree. Activities: Planting native trees, shrubs and grasses. Barbed wire removed on […]
Almost 300 local residents including five schools got involved in the inaugural Thurgoona Bioblitz 2012, a two day community wildlife event held on 18th & 19th May. The event was co-ordinated by the Slopes2Summit (S2S) partnership and the Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group. The event was a huge success, involving 36 separate surveys resulting in over […]