City of Hobart Bushcare in Hobart, Tasmania | Community organisation

City of Hobart Bushcare

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: 6238 2884

Address: 16 Elizabeth Street 7001 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: www.hobartcity.com.au/bushcare

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22.01.2022 Want to be part of research that may improve the management of feral cats in Australia? This is your chance!

20.01.2022 Dr Kevin Bonham delves into the world of Hobart’s ammonite pinwheel snail, one of the rarest snails in the world and found only in the Hobart region.

20.01.2022 Fancy yourself as a bit of a naturalist? Let Rob Armstrong take you into the world of iNaturalist, an incredible app perfect for exploring the natural world around us.

19.01.2022 Over the past few years our Trackcare program has gone from strength to strength because of volunteers like the Johnston family, who have won this year's Trackcare Legend Award. The whole family has been involved in Trackcare since early 2018, working on the North South, Slides, Stumpside, Pitfall, Drops and Yellow Hippo tracks. They bring fun and enthusiasm to every single dig day they attend. They also nabbed this year’s Trackcare prize, a fantastic Stumpjumper mountain bik...e generously donated by Roll Cycles Tas. Thank you to everyone who has been involved with Trackcare this year, we look forward to many more dig days in 2021!

19.01.2022 With summer just around the corner the City of Hobart's firefighting team was put through its paces today. The City's 35 trained firefighters, which include our Bushcare staff, completed a range of exercises including carrying heavy packs over long distances, testing fire hoses and other equipment and sheltering in fire trucks. This training is an important part of preparing for the summer bushfire risk and part of our work to keep the people of Hobart safe. A number of fuel... reduction burns will be carried out in the coming weeks, including at Queens Domain, Ridgeway Park and Bicentennial Park. And remember, the best time to prepare for bushfire is when there is no threat of bushfire. That time is now. So if you live near bushland, now is a good time to remove excess vegetation around your home, clear gutters and develop a household bushfire survival plan. >> https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-serv/Bushfire-management

18.01.2022 Ridgeway Bushcarers are grinning ear to ear after removing Spanish heath before it could spread into nearby, healthy bushland.

17.01.2022 If you're interested in ecological restoration or just care about forests, grasslands, heathlands, wetlands, savannahs, and other terrestrial as well as marine ecosystems, tune into this free webinar featuring great speakers from both here in Australia and further afield!

17.01.2022 It’s been a real rollercoaster of a ride for Bushcare lately, but we’ve come out of the COVID clampdown bigger and stronger than ever.

16.01.2022 Tasmania hasn’t quite received the snow season it’s used to, but that didn’t stop Hobartians getting up into the snowline on kunanyi/Mt Wellington in record numbers.

15.01.2022 Sending big bandicoot kisses to all our Bushcare volunteers. See you next year!

13.01.2022 Wow! This is taking the Bushcare ethos to a whole new level! Two weeks on one of the most remote coastlines in Tasmania tackling weeds, bushwalking and swimming if you are game! If interested be quick though, applications for this summer's volunteer Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams must be in by this Sunday!

13.01.2022 Bushcare for the future! Here's our smallest and possibly our cutest Bushcare volunteer helping cut flower heads off Spanish heath at Ridgeway Bushcare. And here's convenor Andy showing Victoria and Vivian how to recognise Spanish heath from the native Lissanthe strigosa, both in the Ericaceae family.

13.01.2022 Midweek vollies moving mountains of mignonette! The upper summit grasslands are the jewel in the crown of Queens Domain but this site is currently under threat from an infestation of Reseda lutea, otherwise known as mignonette. Mignonette was once cultivated to produce natural yellow dye, but is now an environmental weed invading some of Hobart’s special natural places. ... A group of 11 Bushcare volunteers signed up for a midweek working bee on Wednesday to control this prolific weed, which was on the brink of seeding further and further into threatened Themeda grassy woodland. Well done team!

11.01.2022 A new action plan released by the City of Hobart aims to make Tasmania’s capital more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

10.01.2022 What a beautiful day yesterday was to be out in nature! And we couldn't have asked for a better bunch of people to spend the day with. A huge thanks to all 44 volunteers for their help in restoring the woodland at the Queens Domain. Their help made a big difference to the site, and we all had a lot of fun in the process.

10.01.2022 Fern Tree Bushcare had two special guests last week, for one final hurrah of 2020! Councillor Bill Harvey and Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Helen Burnett donned their gardening gear and came along to rub shoulders (in a COVID-safe manner) with other volunteers to help eradicate Daphne laurel in a private garden in Fern Tree. A big thanks to all and see you next year to continue this important project!

09.01.2022 Just like in Sydney the planting of large, flashy hybrid grevilleas in and around Hobart means our smaller birds are losing out to the larger honeyeaters. When planting a habitat garden it always pays to think local, really local, and if you want to give our smaller birds a helping hand make sure you have a diversity of shrubs and dense vegetation in which they can hide. Full story: https://www.secondnature.org.au/could_our_love_of_large_col ... The Plants of Tasmania Nursery has an excellent local plants list: http://potn.com.au/plant_list.html And for more tips visit our Help care for nature page: https://www.hobartcity.com.au//Bushca/Help-care-for-nature

08.01.2022 If you’re keen to make the most of this beautiful spring weather and put in some native plants, don’t forget to come and get a free native plant at our giveaway at Ridgeway at 3:30pm today. https://facebook.com/events/s/native-plant-giveaway-ridgeway/385320895794774/?ti=icl

08.01.2022 What a fabulous night we all had celebrating another great year with our Bushcare and Trackcare volunteers. Legacy Park on the Queens Domain was the perfect setting to unveil this year's Golden Secateurs winner, our Trackcare Legends award and to draw the winner of the fabulous Stumpjumper bike, generously donated by Roll Cycles Tas. Congratulations Namkheang Ly for taking home this year's Golden Secateurs award, you are an inspiration to us all. And to the Johnston family for putting in the hard yards as Trackcare volunteers, we love the enthusiasm you bring to every dig day! And to every one of our Bushcare and Trackcare volunteers, thank you for another great year in Hobart's bushlands. More photos tomorrow!

08.01.2022 Thank you Luca and Seven! Our Bushcare groups have an increasingly international flavour, and to celebrate this, two of our Chinese volunteers bought Mooncakes to share at Cornelian Bay's morning tea! It's Autumn in China now, and nearly the full moon, which is when families celebrate the harvest by sharing moon cake.

07.01.2022 Spring is such a great time to explore Hobart's bushland reserves with your camera. There are some real show-offs out at the moment, last weekend 'shaggy-pea' was putting up a wall of yellow near Gentle Annie Falls in Waterworks Reserve, and keep your eye out for Clematis aristata, which has gorgeous star-shaped flowers and goes by the names of goat's beard and old man's beard. And if you're lucky you might even come across a Bennetts wallaby with a little one in her pouch, just like we did!

06.01.2022 Weeds! If you're a gardener you know what we're talking about, but imagine if your garden was a 4600 hectare ring of native bushland surrounding the City of Hobart. Weed work isn't pretty, and it's rarely in fashion, but keeping weeds out of Hobart's bushland reserves is a critical to protecting our threatened species and all the other native creatures, plants and fungi that call our bushlands home. So on National Threatened Species Day, we're taking our hats off to our amazi...ng Bushcarers volunteers who pour their hearts into protecting Hobart's bushlands. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

05.01.2022 Spring to summer is the time to see the beautiful white flag iris in our bushland reserves. Also known as a butterfly iris, can you see why?

04.01.2022 This is why the City of Hobart takes so much care before carrying out any fuel reduction burn in Hobart's bushlands. This beautiful eastern barred bandicoot ran straight into a patch of tussock deliberately left as a wildlife refuge while a fuel reduction burn was carried out at Ridgeway today. Eastern barred bandicoots are extinct on the mainland, leaving Tasmania as their only stronghold. It is such a privilege having them call Hobart home.

03.01.2022 In just 18 months, Namkheang Ly has gone from an environmental novice to one of Hobart’s strongest advocates for nature. Born in Cambodia and now living in Hobart, his enthusiasm for protecting the bushland reserves that surround the city as a Bushcare volunteer has won him this year’s Golden Secateurs Award. Presented each year to an outstanding Bushcare volunteer, the award recognises the positive, inspiring and lasting contribution to the conservation of Hobart’s bushland ...reserves by the recipient. Congratulations Namkheang, and thank you for your passion for Bushcare!

03.01.2022 Wow, 84% of Australia's native plant species are found nowhere else in the world! But new research shows our most threatened plants are in steep decline and need all the help we can give them. Our Bushcare work is vital to keeping Hobart's native plants flourishing and thriving. Thank you to everyone who has been part of Bushcare for the more than 25 years we've been at work.

03.01.2022 What do we have in store for you in our spring edition of the Bandicoot Times? Well, pull up a comfy chair, because we have plenty of great reading for you. There's the incredible tale of Hobart’s shy snail, we dip into the world of iNaturalist and take a look at the burning questions surrounding how we prepare Hobart’s nature reserves for the bushfire season. You can get the full edition online at https://issuu.com//docs/bandicoot_times_spring_2020_-_no_78... And it's free! No strings attached.

02.01.2022 If you're in Knocklofty Resereve this week keep an eye out for a pair of black-faced cuckoo-shrikes darting between the trees hunting for food for their young. The cuckoo-shrike is one of the most striking of our bushland birds. Their nests are quite shallow, and bound together with cobwebs.

02.01.2022 Our smallest Bushcare group consists of just four people. Here’s half the team enjoying a well-earned morning tea break last week. As well as steadily improving their little patch at Leonard Wall Reserve / Providence Gully in West Hobart, Valley Street Bushcare relishes the rewards of working in a small, close-knit team that emphasises quality over quantity.

01.01.2022 We’re thrilled at the ecological restoration work that we’ve been able to undertake at the Queens Domain in the last few months, thanks to our new volunteers. On Thursday we held our third Bushcare Special Event near the crossroads with close to 50 wonderful volunteers. Thank you to everyone involved for your help!