Connecting Country February 2025 events

Partnership Against Pests Rabbit Control Field Day 16 Feb 2025

 

Throughout 2024/25 Connecting Country is running a Partnerships Against Pests project in partnership with local Landcare groups and other organisations. In February 2025 we will be teaming up with Victorian Rabbit Action Network (VRAN) to host a Rabbit Control Workshop which will focus on a number of different control methods.

 

Pest animals pose devastating threats to biodiversity. They compete with native wildlife for food and habitat, prey on wildlife and stock, intensify grazing pressure on pastures, crops and native plants, spread weeds, and cause significant erosion and waterway damage. Rabbits are a particularly successful pest animals with a rabbit pair capable of birthing up to 180 rabbits in just under 18 months if conditions are ideal.

 

The Rabbit Control Field Day with VRAN provides an opportunity to learn integrated management techniques for controlling rabbits and will include an introduction to various control methods, demonstrations on how to use a bait layer or set up a bait station and a look at the impacts of rabbit harbour and burrowing systems and how to manage them.

 

When: Saturday 15 February 9:30am – 1:30pm

Location: Harcourt ANA Hall, Harcourt and demonstration site in Harcourt (TBC)

 

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Seeding Our Future: Propagation Workshop

 

In 2024/25 Connecting Country is running the Seeding Our Future project which focuses on securing seed of local indigenous species for future restoration and to help protect locally rare and threatened species by building their populations across the local region.

 

As part of this project, Connecting Country is teaming up with Newstead Natives Nursery to offer local community members and Landcare volunteers an opportunity to learn propagation skills from expert nursery owner Frances Cincotta. Frances will talk us through the basics of, seed sowing, propagating cuttings and the division of plants for propagation.

 

We will focus on a range of indigenous plants including grasses, sedges, riparian plants, locally rare species, and species that are a priority for Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (DJAARA) to return to the landscape. The workshop will also include a short presentation from DJAARA.

 

When: Saturday 22 February 2024, 9.00am – 1.00pm

Where: Newstead Natives, Newstead

Cost: $20

 

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