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The Pondcast
by Glenelg Hopkins CMA
In this series, we take a look at what a Catchment Management Authority does, a few of the projects the organisation is delivering on the ground, meet some of the passionate people working to deliver those projects and hopefully along the way, give you an insight to how we are protecting and enhancing the land, waterways and biodiversity of the Glenelg Hopkins Region of South West Victoria.
Episodes
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Jeff and Morna Semmens
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Jeff and Morna Semmons Planting trees in stones and how a crowbar and open mind helps. Morna and Jeff are first generation farmers, who bought a stony block of land covered bracken that had winds that blew from one end to other with the aim of giving...
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Nelson Coastcare Inc
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders Series Nelson Coastcare Inc - Mary Styles In this episode, we meet Mary Styles from the Nelson Coastcare Inc group from the far south-west corner of Victoria west of Portland. Mary and her merry band of over 40 volunteers are the guardians of the Ramsar-listed...
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Angus and Bobbie McLean
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Angus and Bobbie McLean, Pigeon Ponds How a rabbit refuge became revegetated and regenerated When Angus McLean and his wife, Bobbie, moved back to the Pigeon Ponds district in 2014 and purchased a farm hosting almost the entire population of the…
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Jane O'Beirne
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Jane O'Beirne, Hopkins River, Warrnambool Creating a Hopkins River haven for all For the last 25 years, planting sections of the banks of the Hopkins River has been Jane’s goal – bit by bit joining the sections together form the Hopkins Falls all along...
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CMA Landcare Leaders - John Keillor
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series John Keillor, Cashmore Park, Portland Putting back what was once there across the landscape In John’s family, the connection to environmental support through field naturalism goes back to the 1900s, and grazing on some of his property has the longest in...
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Hamish Bailey
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Hamish Bailey, Park Hill, Wannon How going hard early is paying dividends 20 years later By his own admission, Hamish Bailey went hard early when he returned to the family farm 20 years ago with his fencing and revegetation works. It’s something he now...
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CMA Landcare Leaders - Peter Armstrong
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Peter and Jo Armstrong How treeplanting led to a conservation mystery at Curra In this episode, we meet Peter Armstrong, who with his wife Jo, runs a mixed farming operation north of Streatham in south-west Victoria. 30 years ago, Peter and Jo began...
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Integrated Italian Buckthrown control
We are back out on the Tyrendarra flora reserve with Robin Adair controlling Italian Buckthorn. This introduced exotic plant is playing havoc in the reserve, and as Robin points out in this episode, managing takes some integrated solutions – herbicide is one, but fire might be one of the best.
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Reinstating the forgotten woodlands
On a drizzly windy spring day, we found members of the Friends of the Forgotten Woodland on a roadside, planting banksia, sheoak and sweet bursaria plants. They were establishing a new seed orchard to ensure the remnant native vegetation will always be in the landscape of the Victorian Volcanic...
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The entirely unpalatable Italian Buckthorn
Italian Buckthorn - the woody weed with tasty red berries is beginning to encroach on our landscape. In this episode, Glenelg Hopkins CMA's Tania Parker is our in the field with expert Robin Adair and his offsider Kym, discussing how to control this entirely unpalatable introduced species.
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Tossing golf balls into grasslands with ARI
In this episode we are out in the grasslands tossing golf balls into quadrats with researchers from the Arthur Rylah Institute. Brad Farmilo loves talking grassland ecology, and he’s passionate about the projects being undertaken not just ticking boxes about how many kilometres of fences have…
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Don Rowe - winning trophies for treeplanting
In this episode we meet Victorian Landcare Awards Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award winner Don Rowe, from Maroona. This award acknowledges the significant contribution made by an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to Landcare. Don Rowe is a local...
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Searching for the Bittern
In this Pondcast we are talking all about bitterns. We talk to project manager Jacinta – who explains the project behind finding the elusive Australasian Bitterns. These shy, long-necked birds who sway with the rushes, fly south for the winter each year from the NSW rice fields. And meet…
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Discover Discovery Bay
Find out why the coastal area of south-west Victoria is so internationally important, not just for its geologically significant wetlands, but also for the role it plays as a round-the-world holiday destination for a group of birds from Siberia. Glenelg Hopkins CMA's Glenelg Estuary Discovery Bay...
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Restoring the grasslands
Native grasslands on roadsides are often driven past without a second thought, but a passionate group of people are taking an active role in restoring these endangered plant communities and having great success balancing the ecological, community and agricultural values of the region.
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What's soil got to do with it?
Soil used to be seen as the enemy in natural resource management (NRM), and there was once a great divide between the farming community and those authorities who sought to improve the environment. But things have changed - and now agriculture and NRM can work hand in hand for beneficial outcomes...
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Why native fish need ladders and hotels in our waterways
We met the dynamic duo getting stuff done along the waterways of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA region – Steve and Alex. These two are responsible for putting things IN the river, like fish hotels and ladders, delivering environmental flows along the waterways, and probably most importantly, talking to...
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Turning back the tide
Meet Jarred, the man with the job of trying to manage the competing needs of our environment where the river meets the sea. Managing coastal estuaries with the competing needs of the environment and the community can be tricky, but he also gets to spend a lot of time outdoors in some pretty...
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Volcanic plains and lonely flowers
We sit down with Aggie and Ben, the Glenelg Hopkins CMAs natural resource management planners in the Biodiversity team who are charged with protecting an area known as the VVP. We learn how locking up and leaving native grasslands is the worst thing you want to do if you want to actually look…
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What is a CMA anyway?
The Glenelg Hopkins CMA protects and enhances the land, water and biodiversity across about 26,000ha of Victoria's south-west. But, does anyone really know what GHCMA stands for? In this episode, we meet Adam Bester, the CEO of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA and ask him what his organisation does, how…
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In this series, we take a look at what a Catchment Management Authority does, a few of the projects the organisation is delivering on the ground, meet some of the passionate people working to deliver those projects and hopefully along the way, give you an insight to how we are protecting and enhancing the land, waterways and biodiversity of the Glenelg Hopkins Region of South West Victoria.
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Glenelg Hopkins CMA
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