The team here at Mid Lachlan Landcare are excited to have received the Bupa Landcare Grant for our Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat connectivity project. Our project will be part of the planting of over 80,000 trees and plants across Australia, linking environmental health with community wellbeing. Our project will enhance the Western Woodland Way, an area that begins in the north on Queensland’s border at Dthinna Dthinnawan National Park and ends in the south at Weddin Mountains National Park. Within that corridoor, we’ll be planting to connect habitat between the Conimbla and Nangar National Parks, a rural area with Gooloogong at its centre.

The funds we’ve received via this project have enabled us to finance several community tree planting events in conjunction with Kangarooby Catchment Landcare and Eugowra Catchment Landcare groups with whom we are partnered. This area is well known for Glossy Black Cockatoos who favour She Oaks (Allocasuarina sp) as feed trees and these enjoy the climate and conditions in this part of the world.

Our planting area takes in Cowrashire, an area with an excellent reputation for birdwatching thanks in no small part, due to the work of our Cowra Woodland Birds group who’ve been conducting bird surveys in this region for 23 years. See this blog for more information about the birds of the Cowra region. In addition to improving bird habitat, we are aiming for this project and these plantings to further enhance the birdwatching opportunities in this and neighbouring Cabonne Shire.

Landscape connectivity is essential for maintaining ecosystem and species health, boosting long-term survival by enabling populations to diversity and adapt to an ever-changing climate. While we are primarily focused on birds, these principles also hold true for human populations and as such, we’ll be encouraging our friends, neighbours and countrymen to get out amongst it as we plant our way to a greener and healthier tomorrow.

Our events will run from May 23rd to the end of July. Contact us for more information on how you can get inovlved or scan the QR codes below to register for the event:

This project has been made possible due to generous funding from Bupa and Landcare Australia.