Frogs Landcare Inc (Friends & Residents of Goulburn Swamplands) in Goulburn, New South Wales | Community organisation

Frogs Landcare Inc (Friends & Residents of Goulburn Swamplands)

Locality: Goulburn, New South Wales

Phone: +61 458 299 313

Address: May St 2580 Goulburn, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.facebook.com/GoulburnWetlands

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09.01.2022 Spectacular sunset at the Goulburn Wetlands tonight. Thanks to Lynda Ford for the photos.

07.01.2022 When trees make rain: Could restoring forests help ease drought in Australia? ABC Science By environment reporter Nick Kilvert for Life Matters - Great post with lots of links ! https://www.abc.net.au//trees-make-rain-ease-drou/10236572 "If you've ever walked in a rainforest or even a greenhouse, you'll know that the air inside is heavy with moisture.... This phenomenon is caused by trees releasing water vapour through pores in their leaves called stomata. We also know that many big forests, and rainforests in particular, tend to get more rain than surrounding areas hence the name. Although people have guessed that forests could help make rain, it's always been a chicken-or-egg scenario: do forests make rain or do areas with high rainfall grow forests? An expanding body of evidence supports the idea that forests, in the right conditions, not only make rain locally but also hundreds of kilometres away. In Australia, we've cut down nearly 40 per cent of our forests in the past 200 years, leaving a fragmented landscape in their place. In Queensland, more than one million hectares have been cleared since 2012, and New South Wales and the Northern Territory have also recently increased logging. So if forests create rain, and we've chopped down almost half, have we affected the amount of rainfall we get? And is there any evidence that returning more land to forest could bring more rain? What's the evidence that trees make rain?

06.01.2022 MEET THE 'BIRD LISTENERS' Frank Antram and Greg Warden from the Goulburn Field Naturalists use their aural skills to monitor bird numbers and species in the ...reserves around Crookwell. This effort and information is welcomed by NSW National Parks and Wildlife in their ongoing management of public lands. Story by local filmmaker Richard Snashall, edited by Melia Wenger and produced in association with the NSW Government Saving our Species initiative, the Kanangra-Boyd to Wyangala Link and Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife. See more

05.01.2022 More Effort Needed - Landcare x 1000 ! Biodiversity is precious, as once lost it's gone for all time. Along the country roads & lanes throughout the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, habitat, trees & ecosystems are being lost to encroaching development, isolation. This is not just a local problem, but a local indicator of a massive national & global failure. 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets Environment 15 September 2020 Adam Vaughan...Continue reading

02.01.2022 Great to see a significant partial recovery of the Macquarie Marshes. But there is No there is no room for complacent congratulations, as we are in a drying heating world, and the mega droughts and megafires will be back, and will get worse. As we a Living in the #Pyrocene or the Age of Fire, until well after we fix the cause of the #ClimateEmergency. And it's turning every farm into a Landcare paradise, reiterating the 21billion trees cut down in Eastern Australia, and recabonising put carbon stripped soils ASAP, And oh yeah, decarbonising the atmosphere and global economy, before the #ClimateEmergency becomes the irretrievable unavoidable, unfixable, #ClimateCatastrophe

01.01.2022 If you haven't ever been up close and personal with a Wombat you've missed finding out how amazing these Aussie icons are. They have individual personalities, some are socialable sweeties, others have a warped sense of humour, and many seem taciturn and grumpy. But they are all amazingly adapted survivors. From an environmental science perspective we call them "ecosystem engineers" asking with Echidnas, Bandicoots and Bilbys their burrowing improves rainwater recharging soil moisture levels and aquifers, and their many unused burrows become homes for other species. For instance during the #Megafires Lyrebirds amongst others survived down a Wombat burrow ... https://www.theguardian.com//wombats-deadly-bums-how-they-

01.01.2022 Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change New Scientist Environment 6 May 2019 By Michael Le Page "We are destroying nature at an unprecedented rate, threatening the survival of a million species and our own future, too. But it’s not too late to save them and us, says a major new report. The evidence is incontestable. Our destruction of biodiversity and ecosystem services has reached levels that threaten our well-being at least as much as huma...Continue reading