Monthly Archives: December 2023

The Wildcare Office will be closed from 22nd December – 3rd January

The Wildcare Office will be closed from 22nd December – 3rd January Jill Maxwell, CEO (jillwildcare@gmail.com) and Linda Lever, Financial Services Manager (bookkeeper@wildcaretas.org.au) are back on the Wildcare deck on 3rd January. Kim Willing, Volunteer Services Manager (memberservices@wildcaretas.org.au) is on leave until 15th January.

Learning about weeds at Cradle

WILDCARE Cradle Mountain Volunteers

Weed workshop 23 November 2023 The November working bee crew of Wildcare Cradle Mountain Volunteers (WCCMV), together with Parks staff, additional Wildcare members and a few others, convened for a fabulously informative day on environmental weeds with Mark Wapstra.   Mark is an absolute fountain of knowledge and started the day by letting us know […]

Help us to review the Tasmanian Nature Conservation Fund

  Wildcare Tasmania is reviewing how it operates the Tasmanian Nature Conservation Fund (its fund for tax-deductible donations). We would welcome your views to help us operate the fund in future. We’ve set out in this Issues Paper the areas where we would really value your thoughts. You can send through your views on all […]

Sea spurge biocontrol gaining ground

WILDCARE SPRATS

A comprehensive progress report on the November 2023 Tasmanian monitoring of the sea spurge biocontrol by Jon Marsden-Smedley, from Wildcare’s Sea spurge Remote Area Teams (SPRATS) can be found at this link. Jon’s short summary is that the biocontrol is persisting under Tasmanian conditions, killing many sea spurge adult plants and spreading beyond its release […]