Oyster Harbour catchment covers 3,000 square kilometers and stretches from Albany in the south to Tenterden in the north. Which contains some of the Great Southerns best natural assets. As an organisation we coordinate
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The Forever Project

Fire Resilience Workshop - Making your Property Fire Safe and Sustainable

Oyster Harbour Catchment Group (OHCG) will be hosting a FREE 3 hour workshop on preparing your home and property in the face of the ongoing threat of fire on Sunday the 27th of May from 1-4pm. Gardening personality Chris Ferreira and bushfire consultant Rohan Carboon from the award winning “The Forever Project” will be down on the South Coast discussing various techniques to create a safer sustainable environment using best practice so that you can prepare for fire.
 
This event would suit landholders big and small and even townsfolk. As many of us are awaiting rain and the seasons seem to be changing, I urge you to attend one of these workshops as the information provided will be invaluable in helping prepare for the event of a fire.
 
Topics covered by Chris and Rohan will include property layout, design & retrofitting a home and fuel load management.
Other topics to be covered include read more

Up-coming Events
Meet the Pobblebonk Frog!
The Pobblebonk, or Western Banjo Frog, is a ground dwelling, burrowing frog which is native to the South-west of Western Australia. Like all burrowing frogs, it has clawed fingers and toes, and is not a strong swimmer or jumper (in fact, they regularly drown in pools, and ponds if there is not a sloped, rough surface for them to climb out on).
They have an explosive 'bonk' call, from which they are named. this call can commonly be heard during breeding season (typically Winter and Spring).  

On the Prowl for Possums!

Picture of Western Ringtail possum
We are currently undertaking two projects to better understand our enigmatic Western Ringtail Possum. Western Ringtail Possums are classed as Critically Endangered under Western Australia legislation.  Through these two projects, we are looking into their use of the Mount Clarence/Adelaide, and Mount Melville Reserves within Albany through radio collaring and spotlighting surveys. We are also trying to determine if they are still present in the Porongurup National Park after the fire that swept through in February 2007, and where they occur between the Porongurup NP, down through to Manypeaks.

Ferals, ferals, ferals...

On Saturday the 1st of April we ran a workshop on invasive fauna. We heard from speakers from the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) about the damage that ferals can, and are, doing to the environment and agriculture; and what we can all do to help reduce the numbers and the impact they are having. One thing that was a real eye-opener was the damage that feral pigs are doing in the wetter areas of our catchment, and how quickly their numbers are increasing. Speakers also discussed the difficulties faced in controlling feral cats, such as how there is limited funding due to not them not being a declared pest, and the difficulty of targeting them. read more...

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Old Railway Station.
Po Box 118
Mt Barker WA 6324
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