The Canberra Nature Map project is a repository for park care groups, volunteers and members of the public to report sightings of rare and endangered plant species and the many treasures that Canberra’s nature parks are home to. Please visit www.CanberraNatureMap.org to participate.
Sunday was a perfect day for a serious bush clean-up in the Mount Majura Nature Reserve behind The Fair in North Watson. Within 2 hours over 30 registered cleaners collected 10 bags of land-fill rubbish, 6 bags of recyclables, 7 car tires, a large amount of metal scrap too big…
Click here for more photos from the gathering at the start of the Ant Walk.
To commemorate COG’s (Canberra Ornithologists Group) 50th year COG is surveying the Gang-gang Cockatoo throughout the ACT and the COG area of concern. The survey started on 1 Feb 2014. There are also four intensive week long components of this survey scheduled during the year where, in Garden Bird Survey…
Welcome to the February edition of the FoMM newsletter! I am delighted to be bringing you this newsletter as the new FoMM Secretary and to announce the launch of the new look FoMM website and newsletter format! Thanks to Lance Williamson from Gaffer Designs who volunteered his time to do…
We like to think of Canberra as Australia’s Bush Capital, so it is ironic that the ACT Government has adopted a policy whereby conserving our biodiversity is becoming dependent on its destruction. Dr Philip Gibbons a Senior Lecturer in biodiversity conservation at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU…
The Cootamundra Wattle, Acacia baileyana is an introduced and highly invasive species; the Silver Wattle, Acacia dealbata is native to Mt Majura and Mt Ainslie. Both wattles have blueish-grey-green leaves and flower early in spring. They can be distinguished readily by their leaves. The compound leaves are called bipinnate leaves:…
Cut stems close to ground level and immediately treat cut surface with herbicide glyphosate (Roundup or equivalent product) applied at high concentration e.g. 1 part glyphosate : 2 parts water; apply herbicide mix with spray. The plant’s natural protective mechanism acts very quickly to seal off the cut surface which…
On Thursday 21stNovember 2013 a tornado touched down on Mount Majura. Those of us living in Hackett are very fortunate that the touchdown occurred on the eastern slopes. That Thursday night there was a huge and powerful storm with strong winds, hail and lots of rain. The maximum gust registered…
In 2009, the Explaining Change Project created three sample areas close by the Hackett water tank. This was so we could assess the relative impacts of rabbit and kangaroo grazing. One plot excludes both kangaroos and rabbits, one plot excludes kangaroos but allows rabbits and the third plot is a…
