Join us to celebrate World Wetlands Day - Pioneer Dairy, South Tacoma

Saturday 6th February 2010 8:30am - 11:00am

Adults $5      Children $2.50

Activities include:

• Hot breakfast (8:30-9am)
• Introductory Wetland talks (9-9.30am)
• Bird spotting walk (9.30-10.30am)
• Dip-netting for water bugs (9.30-10.30am)
• Nursery Tours (9.30-10.30am)
• Native plant giveaway(CEN, Land & Habitat for Wildlife members)
• Environmental book sale
• Displays

Bookings essential.  RSVP by 5pm 3rd February 2010

Ph: 4349 4757 or 4349 4756
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Download Breakfast with the Birds Invite 2010(PDF 534Kb)

The Central Coast ‘Land for Wildlife’ program is now offering free, and low-cost, bush regeneration services in specific corridors of rural land in Gosford and Wyong Council areas. See maps below.

  The offer is part of a project funded by the NSW Environmental Trust named ‘Regeneration of Wildlife Corridors through Land for Wildlife’. The project hopes to persuade landholders in the corridors to join Land for Wildlife and receive one free day of bush regeneration and up to three further days at low cost. Land for Wildlife (LfW) is an Australia-wide program supporting landholders who provide habitat for native wildlife on their land. The Community Environment Network (CEN) is the NSW state coordinator of LfW, as well as running the Central Coast regional program. Gosford and Wyong Councils are currently funding the local LfW program. 

This months "Environmental Group of the month"  is:
Food Integrity Group (FIG)
Environmental Group of the Month is a new CEN initiative to help promote community based environmental groups.

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The local population of the endangered Bush Stone-curlew is declining in numbers. The data gathered at each census is very important as it allows us to estimate the number of individual birds in the population.

The  census was conducted in the Davistown area on the evening of Wednesday 5th August 2009.

To learn more about the  Bush Stone-curlew download fact_sheet(PDF_536Kb)

To read the "Curlew Crier" newsletter go to: Information/CEN Publications/Curlew Crier

Seagrass meadows are disappearing at an accelerating pace, according to a new report, which is the first to look at the problem on a global scale.

While marine ecologists have been measuring localized seagrass loss for decades, they had never before pooled their information to get a global perspective. So a team led by Michelle Waycott of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia pooled data from 215 regional studies, from 1879 to 2006.

To read the full article go to  New Scientist