With bird scopes, binoculars and cameras at the ready, Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board staff and volunteers have eagerly begun monitoring Hooded Plover beach nesting territories on the Eyre Peninsula.
The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board is asking locals to get involved in its citizen science projects, in particular it’s looking for sightings of threatened birds and echidnas.
Applications are now open for volunteers and local community organisations to access funding opportunities through the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board’s new $100,000 Grassroots Grants program.
The Cultana Jenkins Shackowners Association have delivered a coastal ‘Grow Me Instead’ project that removed invasive cacti and succulents and replaced them with native seedlings along the Fitzgerald Bay and Point Lowly coastline.
New informative dolphin signs have now been installed at Whyalla’s marina and foreshore along with a suite of new educational signs on sharing the foreshore and the importance of the local environment.
Land managers, school students, volunteers, and Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board staff have come together to plant 800 new Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum seedling in the Cleve district to aid the struggling and endemic EP Blue Gum communities to recover.
Local officers and BirdLife trained volunteers were excited to learn that at least 11 Hooded Plover chicks this season have made it to flying age across the Eyre Peninsula region.
Sarah Voumard has been appointed as a new staff member on the Eastern Eyre Peninsula to support the new Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, while Corey Yeates is taking a break interstate.
Nationally Threatened coastal saltmarsh habitat is slowly being degraded by people with vehicles and machinery such as bobcats modifying the environment to create areas for riding motorbikes in the Whyalla area.