Seventeen participants are celebrating successful completion of a yearlong Landcare for Rural Women training course at Tumby Bay, inspired and already applying knowledge to Landcare projects on their properties.
Sensitive environmental areas, native wildlife and farmland is set to benefit following the successful release of the biological control RHDV1-K5 for invasive European rabbits on Eyre Peninsula.
Increased monitoring of Eyre Peninsula’s wetlands is the latest tool used by Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula to assist with managing the region’s groundwater systems.
People are being invited to provide feedback on the Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board’s draft Aboriginal Partnerships strategy, which will provide the long-term direction for Aboriginal participation in local natural resources management.
Fishing and aquaculture industries across Eyre Peninsula are encouraged to contact Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula to discuss opportunities for developing new, innovative and collaborative sustainable fishing and aquaculture projects.
As the weather warms up, it is time to be on the lookout for native goannas. That’s the message from Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula, who say that more than 1,000 goanna sightings have been reported in the two years since Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula started the EP Goannas Citizen Science Project.
Nine seasonal fire fighters and 40 NREP Officers have just completed pre-season fitness testing and fire training in readiness for the 2017-18 fire danger season.
Helen Smith and Meagan Turner are the region’s newly appointed Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management (NRM) Board Members. The Board’s Presiding Member Diana Laube welcomed Helen and Meagan at their first meeting.
A helicopter has been used to survey a large boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera) population covering about 5000 hectares of hard-to-access land near Cleve.