With 90% of its habitat lost in and around Sydney and the Southern Tablelands, the yellow-spotted bell frog is benefiting from Mulloon’s landscape rehabilitation work.
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A group of ANU design students recently joined in the ACT Young Rangers Workshop run by Tam and Penny at Mulloon Farm for a very fruitful encounter. In weekly contact with Laura through their semester, this highly imaginative crew have been developing a learning kit about the water cycle, containing activities and prompt cards suited to Year 2 classrooms.
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Western Australian-based landscape planner and hydrologist Lance Mudgway, is helping bring a formalised landscape rehydration project to the Wheatbelt for the first time, through his work with the Mulloon Institute.
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Despite record-breaking rainfall and floods this year, eastern Australian landscapes are facing hydration issues. Slowing the flow of water on farms can help.
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WA Farmers Warren and Lori Pensini have started a landscape rehydration trial in a 200 hectare valley on their property Paraway, at Boyup Brook. They have already planted more than 28,000 trees, with more to come, to help slow the flow of water through their paddocks and into the Blackwood Creek catchment. [Source: Farm Weekly]
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The Water Story’ Year 2 curriculum program was taught for the first time in Term 3 at The Scots College in Sydney! TMI’s Laura Fisher and our resident model-maker Gary McGuigan participated in a fun-fueled activity day for 140 boys that complemented the program
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‘You look at what the landscape is telling you’: how landowners and farm managers are passing on regenerative techniques to keep water in the land.
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Most recently, the science team for the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative has been surveying frogs and fish, monitoring the hydrology and managing data, and will soon be diving more deeply into changes to ground and surface water on the Lower Mulloon floodplain.
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Research Coordinator Luke Peel presented a summary of the scientific monitoring results from the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative at the National Landcare Conference in Sydney, highlighting increasing trends in flora and fauna since the project began.
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As I write, the news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II dominates the headlines. An amazing person who demonstrated an incredible commitment to duty of service. With her passing we now have King Charles III. Given Charles’ long-standing interest in and commitment to environmental repair, it will be interesting to see how he might position the monarchy in that respect.
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Forty people explored agro-ecological stewardship with fresh eyes at the artful workshop ‘Solving the Puzzle of Landscape Resilience' in the Capertee Valley NSW recently, hosted by TMI’s Laura Fisher along with Imogen Semmler, Dr Judi Earl, David Hardwick and Gary McGuigan.
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We recently hosted students from Canberra Grammar School for a tour of our living laboratory at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, soaking up the lush green landscape, spotting wombats, cows and chickens (from a distance).
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As we expand our landscape-scale repair and rehydration work out around Australia, the obstacles of state-based regulations continue to loom large and the need for a national approach becomes more important if we are to substantially restore Australia’s degraded landscapes and boost its resilience to a changing climate.
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The Mulloon Institute and RegenWA have launched the WA Landscape Rehydration Information Hub. This is a central point for WA specific landscape rehydration resources, including case studies, educational videos and manuals. It is hoped the space will encourage and support participants and communities through their regenerative journey with tailored resources.
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We have welcomed the start of spring on the farms. Lovely blossoms of wattle and an abundance of native wildlife have been a feature over the last couple of weeks, with highlights being the large diversity of birds and plenty of echidna sightings.
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This August, the new Centralian project kicked off in Alice Springs with members from the Mulloon Institute, Northern Western Australia and Northern Territory (NWANT) Innovation Hub and Tierra Australia meeting with station managers from the Central Australian rangelands.
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The Mulloon Institute has compiled a literature review on landscape rehydration using a variety of research, resources and stakeholders to understand the impacts of landscape rehydration on stream and floodplain dynamics, mitigating existing land degradation, farm productivity and landholder profitability in Western Australia.
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Literally immersed in all things water, thanks to the hot springs on Kamilaroi Country at Burren Junction, the Mulloon Institute’s Sam Skeat and Tony Wells delivered our Bootcamp – ‘Rehydrating Your Farm Landscape’ to landholders from a diversity of landscapes across the region.
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Climate Friendly have established a project under the Future Drought Fund Natural Resource Management Drought Resilience Program, to increase understanding of how carbon farming activities can affect drought resilience. They are partnering with Mulloon Consulting to undertake this project.
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