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Celebrating NAIDOC week 2010
ALL
ACTIVITIES ARE FREEEEEEEEE….
4th
JULY 2010
Kalkari 10:00am to Noon and 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Bobbin Head Near Gibbergong Boardwalk Car park End.
11th
JULY 2010
Lane Cove National Park - Jenkins Hall, Lady Game Drive 10:00am
to 3:00pm
10 – 10:15
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Ochre and Welcome Ceremony
10:20 –
11
Hunting and gathering techniques
Demonstrations and interpretation on tool and weapon making and
uses ei spears, boomerangs, nulla nullas, shields.
11 – 11:30
Gunya construction
Demonstrations and construction of “Gunya”-Traditional
Shelter.
All day
11:30 – 12
Arts and crafts
Painting, drawings, Clap Sticks, Hand Stencils, Basket making.
BREAK – possible dig player at Lane Cove
1 – 2pm
Bush tucker tasting BBQ
Demonstration and Tasting of Kangaroo, Fish, Dampers, Jams, Bush
medicines
2 -3pm
Indigenous games (wana and gorri)
Demonstration, Interpretation and Participation of a Boys and Girls
game.
3pm
Closing ceremony
Click
here to download the timetable as a pdf
Leslie McLeod on 94728956 any other enquiries
Click
here to go to the NAIDOC website
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Sunday
July 18 - Lane Cove River Nature Paddle
Please note that this is a commercial venture, but a great way to
learn more about our lovely Lane Cove River.
Friends Committee
member Tony Butteriss invites you to join him on a kayak trip down
this tranquil waterway, centrally located near Sydney Harbour. It's
a gentle, meandering river with tree-clad banks, impressive sandstone
rock formations and a fascinating history. We'll learn all about
Fairyland and visit the site of Australia's most intriguing murder
mystery! Explore the river from the weir at Fullers Bridge to the
harbour. Plenty of good pull in points and a compact beach with
Harbour views for lunch.
Hire boats
available - very stable Dagger Drifter 2s with comfy seats and rudders
for easy steering. They'll be delivered to the site and collected
afterwards. All you have to do is turn up and have fun.
$55per person.
11-3pm, so we are on the water in the warmest part of the day. Grade
Easy/Medium.
What to do next:
To register and organise kayak hire, email tonycarr@ozemail.com.au
or phone Tony Carr 0417 502 056
Winter
Term of the Monday Walks and Talks program
–
Commencing
3 May
The Winter
Term of the Monday Walks and Talks program at the Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower
Garden, 420 Mona Vale Road, St Ives commences on Monday, May 3rd.
Meet 9.45 am
at the Education Centre, wear closed shoes and hat, bring water.
Cost $4.
Subjects include
Parts of the Plant, Propagation of Plants, Ferns, Cycads and Conifers,
Flowering Plants, and Plant Communities.
Enquiries to
Bill on (02) 9498 6052 or Wendy on (02) 9144 5600
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Blue
Gum High Forest Education Resource Kit
The Friends
of Lane Cove National Park Inc., with the help of Andrew Duffy,
DECC Ranger at Lane Cove National Park, Valerie Close, educational
consultant from ECOLINKS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION and Jude Morris,
responsible for the art work, has produced a resource kit for local
primary schools in the region of the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve
in St Ives, Sydney, NSW.
The Blue
Gum High Forest Education Resource Kit
addresses the importance of the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve as
a unique natural heritage area. It will concentrate on educating
school children about minimizing the impacts of inappropriate practices
currently threatening Blue Gum High Forest. Click
here for more information about the Blue Gum High Forest in Dalrymple-Hay
Nature Reserve.
The package
will be incorporated into the schools’ current syllabus.This
resource assists teachers in developing a unit of study that complements
Board of Studies syllabus outcomes from Human Society and Its Environment
and Science and Technology K to 6.
It will provide
teachers with a number of fun lessons that will satisfy current
learning outcomes as well as introduce a wide array of new and interesting
concepts.
It includes
- Book and
video links
- Full lesson
plans
- extension
activities
- aerial and
street maps with school locations, and
- posters
of native wildlife and vegetation in the Dalrymple-Hay Nature
Reserve
- Forest excursion
DVD.
The kit cost
around $30,000 to produce. Funding came from a $67,000 grant in
2004 from the Department of Environment and Climate Change’s
Environmental Trust, to be spent over 3 years on Blue Gum High Forest
in the Dalrymple Hay Nature Reserve at St Ives. The money was also
used to fund ongoing bush regeneration and environmental education.
A number of interpretation signs were erected for public display
as part of the program as well as walks and talks, letter box drops
and community information days.
The kit was
launched at Warrawee Public School, 16th September 2008.
Click
here for photos from the launch
Before the
launch, Class 5/6M from Warrawee Public School worked on pre-excursion
lesson ideas from the kit and presented the audience with their
research on wildlife found in the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve.
The kit was distributed free to the local primary schools at the
launch. Some of these schools have already used the kit extensively
and have asked for more copies.
The kit is
available free for local schools from the Friends of Lane Cove National
Park Inc.
Click
here to email us for a copy of the Blue
Gum High Forest Education
Resource Kit,
to arrange a demonstration or for more information.
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Earthwatch
Australia
Earthwatch
has some fascinating projects on the go – including the water
rat surveys around the harbour which will be the subject of the
talk at Sydney Aquarium in a couple of weeks. If you would like
more information or wish to get involved check their websites about
the projects below.
Scientist
for a Day: http://www.earthwatch.org/australia/expeditions/1_day
There are 3 projects
running out of Sydney at the moment:
Sydney's
Hidden Mammals - looking at the Rakali, Sydney's native
water rat, with Dr Peter Banks from UNSW. (Dates available in Aug,
Oct, Dec)
Bushwalks
for Healthy Habitats (or Amazing Ants!) - looking at ants
as indicators of ecosystem health, with Dr Dieter Hochuli from Sydney
University.
Sydney's
Tropical Damsels and Surgeons (or Finding Nemo!) - investigating
the impact of climate change on tropical fish species on the east
coast of Australia, with Professor David Booth from UTS. (Dates
available in Oct, Nov, Dec)
Expeditions:
http://www.earthwatch.org/australia/expeditions/
These are run both in
Australia and overseas, and generally last 2-3 weeks.
For any further
information or to book on Earthwatch expeditions, including Scientist
for a Day projects based in Sydney, please contact Yohanna Aurisch
in the Melbourne Office, who is Earthwatch's Field Operations and
Expeditions Manager. Yohanna's contact details are: yaurisch@earthwatch.org.au
and the office number is 03 9682 6828.
ClimateWatch:
http://www.climatewatch.org.au/
This program
will be launched in September and is about to undergo trialling
of the data entering and exporting. If you would like to be involved
in this stage, please contact either Rachel Maitland (RMaitland@earthwatch.org.au)
or Andy Donnelly (adonnelly@earthwatch.org.au)
and they will be in touch. If you require any more information on
ClimateWatch, please do not hesitate to contact Rachel – there
is soon to be an email newsletter coming out about this, and if
you would like to be kept in the loop please also contact Rachel
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NPWS
Wildlife Atlas
Want to learn
more about how NPWS keeps its records on wildlife sightings? Are
you interested in having your own sightings contribute to these
records? How about how we monitor the progress of threatened fauna
in Sydney North? How does our fox baiting program work? And how
do we monitor its effects on local wildlife populations?
For those who
are keen to get straight into it, or who can’t get along on
the 6th, see the information and links below for the Wildlife Atlas.
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Blue
Gum High Forest at St Ives safe at last
Ku-ring-gai
Council has purchased the “missing piece in the jigsaw”
of Ku-ring-gai’s treasured Blue Gum High Forest site at 102
Rosedale Rd, St Ives, Mayor Nick Ebbeck has announced.
Cr Ebbeck said
the sale of the half hectare piece of land, which has been finalised
this week after a lengthy negotiation process, means the entire
18-hectare forest site will be kept intact and protected for future
generations.
“This
is a great win for Ku-ring-gai and has been a real combined effort
with funding from the Federal Government, Council and the community
via a public campaign led by well-known local conservationist Nancy
Pallin,” he said.
“I would
like to congratulate Ms Pallin and all those involved in the Blue
Gum High Forest Action Group, as well as Bradfield MP Dr Brendan
Nelson, who secured an extra $150,000 in federal funding in October,
bringing the Federal Government’s contribution to $350,000.
“I also
thank all members of the public who have donated and pledged money
to the campaign over the past few years.
“This
was the last section of land within the site still in private ownership
– so it was very important that we acquired it to protect
it from any future development.”
Cr Ebbeck said
the sale guaranteed the future of the site, which provides a snapshot
of this once majestic forest that originally covered 40 per cent
of Ku-ring-gai.
“All
Blue Gum High Forest remnants, which stretch from Willoughby to
Hornsby and Baulkham Hills, have been listed as critically endangered
by both the Federal and State governments. Less than five per cent
of the original forest remains intact.
“Earlier
this year, 100 Rosedale Rd, next to the 102 Rosedale Rd site, was
acquired by the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation under
an “environmental offset” deal for the removal of a
small tract of forest in Hornsby to make way for railway improvements.”
Cr Ebbeck said
Blue Gum trees are one of Ku-ring-gai’s most recognisable
attributes and are featured on Council’s new logo and corporate
identity.
“We will
continue to work with the State and Federals Governments and groups
such as the National Trust to ensure this rare forest is protected
from threats such as urban development and preserved for future
generations to enjoy.”
Click
here for more information
The Friends
of Lane Cove National Park Inc.donated $3,000 towards the purchase.
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