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25.01.2022 Sustainable Farms: "Congratulations to ANU economist Professor Bruce Chapman, one of the Research Directors of the Sustainable Farms program, who has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours for his distinguished contribution to higher education. Professor Chapman is the architect of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) introduced in 1989, an innovative idea that has made university education far more accessible by allowi...ng people to pay only once they are able to do so. As part his role with Sustainable Farms, Professor Chapman is now looking at the opportunities that this type of ‘revenue-contingent loan’ could potentially offer farmers. Through a similar scheme to HECS, farmers could access finance for farm improvement works and repay the loan when the farm is financially able to do so. This avoids the risk and stress created by traditional bank loans that require repayment on a specific time schedule, regardless of the farm's financial situation. In an era where drought seems like the new norm, farm improvement works that restore degraded land and improve drought resilience are ever more important. Learn more about revenue-contingent loans for farmers here: www.soundcloud.com/user-767306640/bruce-chapman

25.01.2022 Blaze, one of our mountain ponies talking with a friend who's helping with her training and socialisation.

24.01.2022 Have you spotted a Glossy Black-Cockatoo in your backyard recently? They've been visiting the Casurina trees at The Sanctuary over the last 5 months. via the Threatened Species Commissioner Glossy Black-Cockatoos mostly occur in eastern Australia, from south-eastern Queensland to eastern Victoria, and there is also an outlying population much further west, on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Glossies prefer to feed on the seeds of mature casuarina trees and their presenc...e is often indicated by a layer of cracked cones and fragments that have accumulated under favoured casuarinas. So next time you’re sitting under a casuarina and a seed cone falls from above, look up because it might just be a Glossy. Last summer’s bushfires had a devastating impact on these wonderful birds and their habitat. Recently, small numbers of Glossies have been spotted on the move, feeding on casuarinas near Melbourne. BirdLife Australia are trying to track down these birds so they can work out how to protect them while they’re feeding in these new areas. If you see a Glossy Black-Cockatoo, please record your sighting as soon as possible by heading to: https://birdata.birdlife.org.au/ While you’re there, the Winter Birds in Backyards surveys are also well and truly underway! To join the fun and learn more about Glossies and other birds in your backyard fly on over to: https://www.birdsinbackyards.net//article/Its-Winter-Surve : Glossy Black-Cockatoo Graeme Chapman

24.01.2022 Chironomids (nonbiting midges, or lake flies) are a very substantial and diverse insect family, and many insectivores have taken to their flavour. If an important group of insects like this dies out, the cascading effect on the nature and humans may be considerable. This is exactly what causes deeper concern. If many predators consume roughly the same food, the decline of chironomids, for example, could lead to an unprecedented ecocatastrophe, explains University Lecturer E...ero Vesterinen from the Department of Biology at the University of Turku. "According to a new Finnish study, different groups of insectivores compete for the same type of food. Researchers of the University of Turku and the Finnish Museum of Natural History made the discovery by comparing birds, bats and dragonflies that forage in the same area in Southwest Finland. These very distantly related predators consumed the same insect groups, such as flies, mosquitoes, and other dipterans. The results shed new light on the decline in insect populations, because a remarkable portion of insectivores may actually be in greater danger than previously believed." (Many species of Chironomids superficially resemble mosquitoes, but they lack the wing scales and elongated mouthparts https://www.utu.fi//dietary-overlap-of-birds-bats-and-drag A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord - by Eero Vesterinen et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73609-9

24.01.2022 The Meadow Argus can also be found at The Sanctuary in spring

21.01.2022 The Return of the Platypuses "Rescued from Australia’s fires, a small fleet of wild platypuses is launched back into their wetland home and into an uncertain future. The platypus, liberated from the pillowcase in which it had been traveling, headed straight for water....Continue reading

21.01.2022 "Today, fewer than 100 mature pines are left in the wild." "But while rare in nature, our ongoing research with citizen scientists is finding Wollemi pines grow in backyards all over the world, in a range of environments, and this information can inform how we can protect them in the wild. " https://bit.ly/2AC7R2K #wollemipine #citizenscience

21.01.2022 Unless the federal legislation protecting Australia's endangered fauna & flora are made to work, the future is full of needless extinctions. "Our laws need to work for nature It has been a terrible summer for millions of Australian birds and the natural places that are their homes. Many species have lost half their habitat to the devastating bushfires, increasing the number of threatened bird species by as much as 25%. ... Protecting remaining natural places is more important than ever. But Australia’s weak nature laws mean decision makers can still approve logging, mining, construction and other damaging activities that harm our wildlife and their homes. In the wake of this year’s devastating fires, political leaders must deliver stronger nature laws to protect what is left. The review of Australia’s national nature laws is a key moment for our leaders to ensure Swift Parrots can continue to amaze us forever. Contact your local representative to urge them to strengthen Australia’s nature laws today. https://www.actforbirds.org/stopextinctions

20.01.2022 Sadly for the immediate future, our YouCamping has stopped as a whinge to Goulburn Mulwaree Council has led to a compliance letter & there are no remedies at law to disagree. The She & LGA planning laws behind this action will badly impact many YC hosts & potential farm hosts as over the last 40 years farmers have become price takers. It is also a financial loss to the district, as not only is our budget for equipment, fencing & building materials, treeplanting etc less, our... guests who previously visited Bungonia National Park, fueled up at Marulan, and visited the restaurants and the many heritage tourist sights of Goulburn, will be spending their hard-earned holiday $ in another district, another town, not Goulburn. The NSW Planning & Goulburn Mulwaree Council rules do not permit even minimal impact YouCamping on land classified as Rural (RU2). So much for sustainable economic development & the NSW Government wanting to help the regions & farmers, or boost regional tourism. We will be lobbying the state government and local MP etc to get the laws changed. The Sanctuary, as a YouCamp destination was not about running a campground, but sharing a farm or bush block with people needing space and peace in nature. Think national park except you could have a campfire and bring the family dogs. In the meantime, if anyone wants to help with farm biosecurity, fencing, horse training, preserving endangered ecological communities, or implementing the farm catchment management & Permaculture design please contact me Danielle Marsden-Ballard via social media, ph 0490173124 https://www.facebook.com/TheSanctuary2580 We look forward to the laws being changed, & once more welcoming YouCampers to share & learn about the timeless natural beauty of the biodiverse land we are custodians for. Please Visit YouCamp.com/ and support rural and regional landholders, farmers and custodians of our precious biodiversity https://youcamp.com/

19.01.2022 Like the Megafires, can't say we weren't warned that future Epidemics & Pandemics will be largely due to environmental destruction. This post in the New York Times of July 2012, is just one of many popular public & accessible examples. The Ecology of Disease - Pandemics in the 21st Century are & will be mostly the result of Environmental Destruction - "Disease, it turns out, is largely an environmental issue. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect human...Continue reading

18.01.2022 When trees make rain: Could restoring forests help ease drought in Australia? - While our ~500 acres of forest, woodlands & native grasslands, as well as the surrounding environmental reserve are safe from clearing, too much clear felling of the bush is still taking place in the remnant forests & woodlands of the Southern Tablelands. Trees & forests work as evaporative airconditioners, & help make rain as well. So the longer, hotter heatwaves, longer more savage droughts..., and more extreme weather events now on the regular weather menu of a world experiencing rapid climate change, are an additional incentive to replacing the ~20billion trees CSIRO estimates have been felled in Eastern Australia since European invasion, 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?....

16.01.2022 Wombats are wovable wogues !

14.01.2022 While The Sanctuary had a consistent 5 Star visitor satisfaction rating on YouCamp, Sadly for the immediate future, our YouCamping has stopped as a whinge to Goulburn Mulwaree Council has led to a compliance letter & there are no remedies at law to disagree. This will badly impact many YC hosts & potential farm hosts as over the last 40 years farmers have become price takers. It is also a financial loss to the district, as not only is our budget for equipment, fencing & build...ing materials, treeplanting etc less, our guests who previously visited Bungonia National Park, fueled up at Marulan, and visited the restaurants and the many heritage tourist sights of Goulburn, will be spending their hard-earned holiday $ in another district, another town, not Goulburn. The NSW Planning & Goulburn Mulwaree Council rules do not permit even minimal impact YouCamping on land classified as Rural (RU2). So much for sustainable economic development & the NSW Government wanting to help the regions & farmers, or boost regional tourism. We will be lobbying the state government and local MP etc to get the laws changed. The Sanctuary, as a YouCamp destination was not about running a campground, but sharing a farm or bush block with people needing space and peace in nature. Think national park except you could have a campfire and bring the family dogs. In the meantime, if anyone wants to help with farm biosecurity, fencing, horse training, preserving endangered ecological communities, or implementing the farm catchment management & Permaculture design please contact me Danielle Marsden-Ballard via social media, ph 0490173124 https://www.facebook.com/TheSanctuary2580 We look forward to the laws being changed, & once more welcoming YouCampers to share & learn about the timeless natural beauty of the biodiverse land we are custodians for. Please Visit YouCamp.com/ and support rural and regional landholders, farmers and custodians of our precious biodiversity https://youcamp.com/

13.01.2022 While our trees are safe, Australia is one of the worst deforesters in the world mainly with virtually unrestricted Landclearing by farmers, developers & urbanisation. This post is from 31 Oct 2018, but it's only worse at the end of 2020 Australia is the only nation in the developed world to make the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) global list of deforestation hotspots....Continue reading

11.01.2022 NSW Government splits in chaos over enviro protection as The Nationals move to the crossbench & past Climate Emergency Science Denial to leading the #KoalaGenocide movement. #Ecocide is a crime against all Life on Earth https://www.abc.net.au//nsw-government-crisis-as-/12648966

08.01.2022 Seeing community transmission of Covid 19 is now growing exponentially in Melbourne & possibly southwest Sydney, physical distancing, self-isolation & facemasks are the only defence we have, until or if, a successful vaccine is developed and 7billion doses are manufactured. The Sanctuary has plenty of isolation and distance from everyone !

08.01.2022 Walls or fences like this in stone, as stone and hedge, or as a stone retaining wall would look great at The Sanctuary. From a Permaculture design perspective, the meandering walls also create microclimate ecological niches.

07.01.2022 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

07.01.2022 "If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been fascinated by this question, but of course birds in flight leave no traceat least none visible to the naked eye. Bou had a plan though and he has spent the past five years trying to capture the elusive contours drawn by birds in motion, or, as he says, to make visible the invisible. He began exploring photographic techniques that would allow him to show t...he beauty of birds in a way not seen before and ultimately he chose to work with a video camera, from which he extracts high-resolution photographs. After he films the birds in motion, Bou selects a section of the footage and layers the individual frames into one image. He finds the process similar to developing film: He can’t tell in advance what the final result will be, but there’s one magical second, he says, when the imagechimerical and surrealbegins to emerge. Before Bou began this project, which he calls Ornitografías, he earned degrees in geology and photography in Barcelona, then worked as a lighting technician in the fashion industry. This current work, he says, combines his passion and his profession. It’s technical, challenging, artistic, and natural. It’s the connection between photography and nature that I was looking for. Ornitografias is the balance between art and science, a project of naturalist discovery, and, at the same time, an exercise of visual poetry. via https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalNewsSource/

06.01.2022 "How does investing in the natural assets of a farm, like shelterbelts and farm dams, enable farmers to be more resilient in drought, while at the same time help to support the biodiversity on farms? If you've got 6 minutes... Check out this podcast https://www.sustainablefarms.org.au/node/206 ... With Professor David Lindenmayer (the Sustainable Farms Ecology Research Director) talking to Gordon Taylor about how farm dams can make a positive contribution to supporting both farm productivity and conservation outcomes. And remember Sustainable Farms are hosting a webinar on the 4th of June on Enhancing Farm Dams, to register follow link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/farm-dam-enhancements-free- for details.

05.01.2022 Conservation co-op provides connection to community and nature - ABC Science Show "At a time when some people feel they are losing connection with others, Richard Laurie finds himself in a place which provides connection to people and nature. About a year ago, Richard moved to Bend of Islands a conservation cooperative on the Yarra River north of Melbourne. The community comprises 24 households of diverse makeup and backgrounds which share a passion for actively protecting a...Continue reading