Please find details below of our upcoming AGM, we hope you and your friends can attend to see the exciting new developments and participate in our forward planning / activities. Agenda for the Annual General Meeting 2016 Friends of Bruny Island Quarantine Station (FOBIQS) Saturday 19th March Meeting to commence with tea/coffee at 10.00 […]
As part of our website improvement program we have implemented online membership cards. This allows you to print your own membership cards immediately after you have renewed your membership. Simply login to the website (Members, Login) and you will find all the links on your account page. If you are already logged in, then its […]
Visit Friends of Maatsuyker Island’s (FOMI) temporary exhibition at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, showcasing urgent works being undertaken by FOMI and PWS to conserve and restore the Maatsuyker Island lighthouse. Exhibition open 9.00 am – 5.00 pm daily until the end of April 2016, Maritime Museum of Tasmania (16 Argyle St, Hobart). Museum entry fees apply […]
Wildcare group Friends of Bass Strait Islands (FoBSI) will be running 2 working bees in 2016 to continue our boxthorn control effort in the Furneaux Islands. The first will run from May 23rd – June 5th. The focus will be on completion of boxthorn removal from the entire Wybalenna site on the western coast of Flinders and from the adjacent muttonbird rookery […]
Student Volunteer Recruitment Drive Southern Tasmania Wildcarers – have you got an hour or two you can spare next week (or the week after) to help us at the University of Tasmania Orientation Week events? We have a spot booked for: Mon Feb 15 Sandy Bay Campus Central Mall 10:30 am – 2:30 pm Tues […]
The Wildcare Annual General Meeting will be held at 11.00 am on Saturday, 19 March 2016 in the Gnomon Room at the southern end of the Wharf Pavilion, Crescent Street, Ulverstone. It is located on the Leven River. Further advice on guest speakers will be communicated via the Wildcare website. RSVP to ceo@wildcaretas.org.au on or […]
Friends of Narawantapu or in other words the Sea Spurge Weeders We are a new group and we had a fantastic response at our first working bee as a new Wildcare group and on our first ever attempt to rid the park of the dreaded sea spurge, which was very successful. Successful if you count […]
Goat Hills With 8 places for volunteers in the vehicles available it is always going to be unknown if there will be room for everyone, but ton this occasion we had the number to fill the spots and so no one had to walk up the steep track to Goat Hills. The return trip is […]
The Get Outside Wildcare Branch held their first outing of the year to the beautiful Fortescue Bay. Fifty- five people in total came for the day mostly young people aged between fifteen and twenty -five. The day was spent enjoying the beach, each other, walking, burying people in the sand, soccer, swimming and fishing. […]
Volunteers on the 24th January clean up sighted three Spotted Hand Fish. This is the first occasion they have been seen during our program. We have picked up and returned many Live-bearing Seastars and it is great to know that Pipeclay Lagoon is also supporting the Spotted Hand Fish. Live-bearing Seastar found on a clean […]