Monthly Meeting:  Friday 8th December, 7.30 pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St

“Members Night!”

What was a highlight of your nature sightings this year?  Please share it with us at our end-of-year monthly meeting.  Do you have a photo, a video, a sound recording or just a story to tell.  Would you like to recite a poem or sing a song to capture your impressions of this year’s Field …

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ADVANCE NOTICE: SEANA Autumn Camp – Phillip Island, 19–22 April, 2024

Hosted by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

The South East Australian Naturalists’ Association (SEANA) organises two camps each year where Field Naturalist groups from around SE Australia gather to meet fellow naturalists and explore a new region under the guidance of local experts. The next SEANA Autumn Camp will be held over the weekend of Friday April 19 – Monday April 22 …

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CANCELLED.  Excursion: Saturday 11th November, “Managing Remnant Vegetation” 

Leader: Ian Higgins

Unfortunately, due to the high temperatures forecast for Saturday, we have decided to cancel our excursion to the grassland site. We will reschedule this important topic next year. However, members and visitors are reminded of two other CFNC activities this weekend as detailed in our previous updates: MONTHLY MEETING: Friday 10th November, 7.30pm, Uniting Church …

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Monthly Meeting:  Friday 10th November, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Chapel, Lyttleton St.

Speaker: Sophie Bickford, Central Victorian Biolinks Alliance, “Community-connected Conservation across Central Victoria”

The Central Victorian Biolinks Alliance’s vision is to restore and reconnect large landscapes across public and private land in Central Victoria to halt environmental and species decline. Partnerships with community environment groups extend from the Grampians across to the Australian Alps and from the Dividing Ranges to the Murray River. Executive Director Sophie Bickford will …

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Roadside Clean-up: Monday 13th November, 9am

Help keep our stretch of the Pyrenees Highway clean!

Come along and help do our bit for the community.  More hands, quicker work.  And you never know what treasure you might find! Meet: 9am near Tait’s Decorative Iron, corner of Willy Milly Rd and Pyrenees Highway, Castlemaine.   Bring: Gloves, water, sturdy footwear. Garbage bags and safety vests supplied. Contact: Geoff Harris (mob 0418 …

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Monthly Meeting:  Friday 13th October, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St.

Speaker: Kailee Savoia (Parks Victoria, Gariwerd), “Grampians/Gariwerd Ark – landscape scale predator control"

The Gariwerd National Park is renowned for its significant diversity of fauna species – 50 species are classified as threatened, including the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby. Introduced predators potentially have an enormous impact on the wildlife of the park. The Gariwerd Ark project aims to deliver predator animal control and reintroductions of native animals such as …

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Excursion:  Saturday 14th October, 1.30pm “Pre-1852 Eucalypts around Maldon – their importance and protection”

Leader: Bev Phillips, Maldon Urban Landcare Inc. (MULGA)

On this excursion, we will learn how the MULGA project aims to document and ensure long-term protection of eucalypts that were growing before 1852 (pre-European settlement) in Maldon. These trees are of significant environmental and historical significance. MULGA secretary Bev Phillips will describe how to identify the four indigenous Box trees in Maldon – Grey, …

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Great Southern BioBlitz 24-27 November 2023

FOR YOUR DIARY!

Block out your diaries and rally your friends, the 2023 Great Southern BioBlitz is fast approaching. Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club is the project host for our local area and Club members and all others are encouraged to participate. This annual event is an intensive four-day effort by citizen scientists across the southern hemisphere to record …

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