Unfortunately invasive plants remain a significant threat to biodiversity in New South Wales. Many invasive species are listed as key threatening processes in NSW legislation with pest animals and weeds identified as a threat to over 70 per cent of all threatened species.
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At the recent Autumn Bellingen Plant Fair Landcare shared their stall with the Council Invasive Species Officer to spread the word about the importance of control weeds to protect our precious local ecosystems including rainforest on the plateau, valleys and coast.
Three community groups, with the help of Bellinger Landcare, have now gained funding from the Bellingen Shire Council's Environmental Levy Community Fund.
BLI is also appreciative of Council's support which has seen the office move to the Bellingen Shire Sustainability Centre and enhanced the capacity to respond to queries from shire residents.
Excellent resources on weed identification, weed control, protecting waterways and natural resource management are available there.
Bellinger Landcare representatives are also on the Council's Koala Advisory Committee and Floodplain, Coast and Estuary Committee.
Council funding has further assisted Bellinger Landcare to gain grants from a number of other bodies to expand work on the Hydes Creek Koala Corridor Project and the Upper Bellinger Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat Connections project at Thora.
Large grant applications have also been submitted for a sustainable grazing project on the plateau and a project the help protect Urunga Wetland.
Fingers crossed that these grant submissions will also be successful!
