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.
As yellowtail kingfish return to shallow coastal waters, recreational fishers are reminded about the importance of Coffin Bay to the kingfish life cycle and the rules regarding Marine Park Sanctuary Zones.
Eight Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula staff will be presenting at the State Landcare Conference in Clare this week. They are showcasing a range of successful natural resources management (NRM) projects such as Eyre Peninsula’s Aboriginal partnerships in NRM, the WildEyre conservation through collaboration project, women in sustainable agriculture enterprises and an the ever-increasing network of local citizen scientists making important biological observations (birds, goannas, koala) on Eyre Peninsula.
Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula is calling on locals to report koala sightings online as part of a new project to find out more about the koala population on Eyre Peninsula, and their effects on our woodlands.
This Seaweek you are invited to build a 4D model of a shark, dolphin or an orca and inspect a Southern Right Whale vertebrate at the Pop-Up Marine Discovery Centre on display at the Port Lincoln Library from Monday 4 until Sunday 10 September.