An invitation to participate in a photographic workshop in Newham

Bats, bees, birds, butterflies, insects, moths, and wind each assist plants with the pollination process using unique, highly specialized and diverse methods. To date, no study has been conducted on pollinators in the Upper Campaspe Catchment – and that is where you come in!

We would like to encourage you, the Upper Campaspe Catchment community, to record, photograph and report on the many specialised native plant-pollinator relationships that you observe in your area.

We would love you to join our team of Citizen Scientists creating a data base of indigenous pollinators in the Upper Campaspe catchment!

As part of our Pollinator Project, we are inviting you to spend the weekend with the UCLN in Newham on 19 & 20 February from 10am to 1pm, and learn how to ‘photograph’ native insects from our resident pollinator photographer – UCLN President John Walter.

The Pollinators in Focus workshop will be run in two parts over two days – Saturday 19th will be theory based at the Newham Town Hall, while Sunday 20th will be a practical run in a local private garden!

Please email ucln@uppercampaspelandcare.org or call UCLN Landcare Facilitator, Rebekah on 0432 491 789 to reserve your place!

For more images of your local pollinators or to share images you have taken, please visit our iNaturalistAU Projects:

UCLN Pollinator Hunters

or

UCLN Pollinators of Central Victoria

I would like to wish you all a safe, healthy, happy, social & prosperous 2022! Hopefully this year will see us achieve many of our Landcare goals, individually, as Landcare Groups and together as a Catchment.

As 2022 launches, so do our Pollinator Projects – the first of which is a SEED COLLECTION WORKSHOP.

Spend the morning with the UCLN in Drummond on either the 8^th or 23^rd January from 10am to 1pm and learn how to ‘harvest’ and ‘propagate’ native seeds with UCLN President John Walter.

The seeds you collect can be used on site or sold or bartered with other land holders in the Upper Campaspe Catchment to create a seed bank of local provenance.

We would love to see as many people attend as possible as this is an invaluable skill that can be passed on to all Landcare members, and used in all projects, now and into the future.

Please email ucln@uppercampaspelandcare.org or call UCLN Landcare Facilitator, Rebekah on 0432 491 789 to reserve your place! Full details will be emailed to participants on registration.

The Pollinator Project

Recognizing the role that indigenous pollinators play in maintaining a functional ecosystem, and the threats that they are facing, the UCLN developed the Pollinator Corridor Project – a cooperative, inclusive ongoing program designed to encourage the enhancement, establishment, and preservation of native pollinator habitat through the creation of Pollinator Corridors on private and public land.

Pollinator corridors are like biodiversity corridors designed for larger species, but pollinator corridors do not necessarily restore or protect habitat; instead, they can be designed and built in the middle of landscapes dominated by humans, such as agricultural land and urban streets.

The Upper Campaspe Pollinator Corridor Project is open to everyone. Your contribution can be as large as a field or roadside or as small as a flowering potted plant or butterfly puddler. Provided you can offer a sheltered spot, a safe waterer and year-round flowers, there will always be something in your garden, regardless of its size, to tempt pollinators to visit!

Free webinars, workshops and field days will run throughout the year across the Upper Campaspe Catchment, and you are invited to participate in them all!

Please contact us to learn more about indigenous pollinators and how you can create healthy pollinator habitat and become involved in the Pollinator Project.

The University of Melbourne and Federation University are researching the importance of local environmental and Landcare groups in post bushfire recovery. 

Research will be conducted through online and in person workshops with members of environmental community groups to learn more about their experiences.

They want to learn about how groups have contributed to the environmental and biodiversity recovery after bushfires, whether being involved in a community group has affected your well-being and what has helped your group to be able to contribute to environmental and social resilience.

If you would like to help provide your insights and contribute to this research, you can register to attend any of the scheduled workshops outlined below. 

Workshop 1:
Orbost Exhibition Centre
Tue 30 November
10am – 12.30pm

Workshop 2:
Online
Friday 3 December
2pm – 4.30pm

Workshop 3:
Online
Monday 6 December
6pm – 8.30pm

If you would like to register to attend a workshop, please contact:

Dr. Kate Brady
email: kate.brady@unimelb.edu.au
or call 0431288736 

This project is funded by the $14M Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grant program. 

We pay our respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands in Victoria.
We take inspiration from the legacy of Victorian Aboriginal people, who have produced food, while caring for the ecological systems that life depends upon, for tens of thousands of years.