Wildcare Friends of the larapuna coast

Wildcare's Friends of the larapuna Coast work together to celebrate, protect and care for the natural and cultural values of the larapuna/Bay of Fires coast area. They work collaboratively with many organisations to host an annual community weekend that sees volunteers from Ansons Bay to Denmark walk the beaches, learn about the land and sea, their past and future, and care for the larapuna coastline by collecting rubbish and pulling sea spurge: binding nature, culture and community together. Their vision is expanding and you are invited to help make it happen! If you would like to be part of a Sea spurge free East Coast and have fun while you are doing it, join the Friends of larapuna Coast in figuring out how to do it! When? Saturday 4 March, 10 am to 12:30 and social lunch after Falmouth Community Centre,18 Morrison St, Falmouth. If you can't get there we will organise an online video meeting link and big-ish screen so you can still join in. BYO lunch (+/- to share) after, BBQ and small kitchen available (we need to clean up afterwards). Thank you Falmouth Community Centre Inc. for kindly making your facility available to us. Sea Spurge free East Coast – Discussion There are already lots of individuals and groups working on sea spurge up and down the east coast of Tasmania. From Friends of Freycinet NP. covering beaches to Chain of Lagoons, individuals and groups on their local beaches, through to the larapuna Community Weekends in the north. And plenty more who love the coast and walk its beaches regularly (or are just visiting) would be interested to contribute to a coordinated campaign. We just need to get smarter about it, making sure there's no gaps (coastline & seasons), suppressing outbreaks and demonstrating success to attract resources to do more exciting things. This is for anyone including other groups who would like to help by coordinating their efforts across the greater coastline. We'll look at this bigger aim right after the Wildcare group meeting.

• Coverage – People
• Safety – nature's and yours
• Working as a volunteer
• 'Spurging' – method and records/data
• Biocontrol
• More besides sea spurge

Friends of larapuna Coast – Wildcare Branch Meeting

• Activity report
• Group funds
• President, Secretary and Treasurer roles and appointment
• Plans and opportunities for 2023 and beyond – what and who

Wildcare groups (Branches within Wildcare Tasmania) at a minimum must hold annual meetings and maintain a leadership team of President, Secretary and Treasurer. This will be our well overdue first meeting. To keep larapuna Community Weekend going and look at the other beaches crying out for our care will take more people to help organise and run activities in future. There are also great new ideas and opportunities to consider. Please come and have a say in the group's future and things you could do;

• consider putting your hand up for the group executive roles
• helping with organising larapuna Community Weekend (let's talk about 2023 dates)
• new beaches, activities and ideas for the Wildcare group.

The meetings will be followed by an informal lunch – BYO lunch (+/- to share) after, BBQ and small kitchen available (we need to clean up afterwards). Thank you Falmouth Community Centre Inc. for kindly making your facility available to us. If you can't get there we will organise an online video meeting link and big-ish screen so you can still join in. Wildcare members, please register here if you are attending on the day and get in touch with Polly Buchhorn via wildcare.larapunacoast@gmail.com if you would prefer to join online, or can't do either but are interested in helping make things happen. Non-members welcome - please RSVP to wildcare.larapunacoast@gmail.com