Berry Corridor Update #1
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Berry Corridor Update #1
World Environment Day 2017: Berry Landcare participated in the celebration and launch of Boomerang Bags Berry by setting up a stall in Broughton Mall, Berry, at the launch, with posters and handouts and give-away pots and tube-stock of locally indigenous rain-forest species. The Boomerang Bags initiative will reduce the use of plastic bags in Berry and are made by local volunteers from recycled material.
Berry Landcare November 2015
The Honourable Gareth Ward, member for Kiama ( also a member of the 'NSW Parliament Friends of Landcare') presented the award for a NSW Environmental Trust 'Bush Connect' Grant of $500,000 to members of Berry Landcare, the CEO of the NSW National Parks Association, a key partner in the project and other partners on Friday, 18th December, in a forest setting within the Berry Corridor.
Berry Landcare was presented with the Winner's Award as 2016 Conservation Champion by Gareth Ward MP, Member for Kiama and Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast at a ceremony in Kiama on 27 October 2016
End of Year Barbecue Saturday 19 December
Following the working bee on Moeyan Hill Reserve on Saturday 19 December, Berry Landcarers gathered for a barbecue, at which the 2015 NSW Individual Landcarer Award, having been accepted on his behalf by our Chairman, Will Armitage, was handed over to Bill Pigott
Volunteers rescue plants in path of upgrade By ROBERT CRAWFORD March 10, 2015, 5:19 p.m. South Coast Register
The Honourable Gareth Ward, member for Kiama ( also a member of the 'NSW Parliament Friends of Landcare') presented the award for a NSW Environmental Trust 'Bush Connect' Grant of $500,000 to members of Berry Landcare, the CEO of the NSW National Parks Association, a key partner in the project and other partners on Friday, 18th December, in a forest setting within the Berry Corridor.
Memorial tree planting in Berry recognises the role played by Phillip Toyne and Rick Farley in the Landcare movement: Planting Trees and Sowing Seeds:
UTS 'Big Lift' students 'pay it forward in the Berry Corridor. May 2017
UTS - Big Lift’s Big Weekend Out: May 5 & 6 2017 'Big Lift' is a University of Technology Sydney’ initiative for students and others connected with the UTS to go out into the community and engage in civic and communal activities. On the weekend of May 6th and 7th Berry hosted a group of 21 young people in “BIG LIFT” tee shirts who together with several Berry Landcare members and other Berry locals worked on four Wild Life Corridor sites.
Weekend of May 6 and 7 2017: Broughton Vale Bushcare
May 7th workday suspended for the Berry Wildlife Corridor ‘Big Lift’ Our normal programmed May workday falls on Sunday the 7th however, this coincides with the Berry Landcare Berry Wildlife Corridor ‘Big Lift’ workday weekend (6th and 7th May). Berry Landcare is urging all of its members, keen on a planting and weeding fix, to lend a hand to this volunteer event. Please see appended flyer. For this reason, and because the Common falls within the Berry Wildlife Corridor, (and because the new coordinator is a member of the Corridor working group and will be applying glyphosate to Lantana (see above) on this weekend), our May workday has been suspended in favour of the Corridor ‘Big Lift’. Come along and be part of the Berry Wildlife Corridor bigger picture. There are morning and afternoon sessions, and a free BBQ lunch. Members who live in the corridor will be able to pick up a Berry Wildlife Corridor sign on the day (see inset on front page picture). The next Broughton Vale Workday will be June 4th Due to the Berry Wildlife Corridor ‘Big Lift’ being conducted on the 6th and 7th of May, our usual May workday has been suspended and our next work day will be June 4th 2017.