The trees surrounding Canowindra’s swing bridge on the banks of the Bleubula river and currently teeming with Grey Headed Flying Foxes – it really is quite a feast for the senses. This dramatic swelling in numbers is temporary, caused by…
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Category: Ecology, Education
Tags: bats, Biodiversity, Box Gum Woodland, Canowindra, Education, flying fox, insects, Mid Lachlan Landcare, nature, photography, pollinators, threatened species, travel, wildlife
January 2026 saw the Cowra Flying Fox Camp hit with a heat stress event. Thankfully our bats faired relatively well this time but if we don’t work on a coordinated emergency response plan, that may not be the case in the future. Here’s what happened and what we learned through being part of the process
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Category: Connecting Community, Ecology
Tags: bats, birds, Cowra, Flying Foxes, nature, photography, pollinators, threatened species, travel, wildlife
2025 has been a great year for on-ground working bee’s which, thanks to our Glossy Black Cockatoo planting project resulted in 60 volunteers (approximately 240 volunteer hours) across 6 planting events! Brilliant stuff, but that wasn’t enough for you apparently and we’ve been asked to provide MORE working bee’s which is totally amazing.
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We were thrilled to be invited to open the Birds, Bees & Blooms exhibition at the Little Magpie Gallery here in Cowra last week. My mind went immediately to the subject of pollination and how I could bring such a broad and vital topic to life in no more than 15 minutes for this art-loving crowd.
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