Oyster Harbour Catchment Group
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    • Our Groups Story >
      • Meet our Committee of Volunteers
      • Meet Our Staff
      • Our Fellow Community Groups
    • Catchment History
    • Natural Resources
    • Threats >
      • Erosion
      • Cats: Feral, Stray and Domestic
      • Feral Rodents
      • Invasive Plants
    • Natural Wonders >
      • Lakes and Wetlands
      • Biodiversity >
        • Seagrass meadows
        • Spiders
        • Western Ringtail Possum
  • PROJECTS
    • Regional Landcare Program
    • Looking Forward, Looking Back: farm planning
    • "uPtake" fertiliser trial
    • Healthy Estuaries WA >
      • Nutrient Mapping
    • Taking Past Learnings into the Future
    • Ranges Link
    • Past Projects
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Membership
    • Newsletter
    • Citizen Science and other volunteering opportunities >
      • Annual Western Ringtail Possum tally
    • Albany and Surrounds Feral Cat Working Group >
      • Albany and Surrounds Cat Blog
    • Accuspread Field Day Registration
    • Red Card Feral Animal Shoot >
      • Team Registration
    • Grazer Matcher
  • CONTACT US
  • RESOURCES
    • For Youth and the Youthful at Heart

Resources

Over the last 30 or so years we've been collected and made many educational resources and project learnings that we want to share with the community so we can learn together, don't repeat each others mistakes and to promote best practice within our catchment.

Resources include:​
  • Assistance Available
  • Fencing
  • Revegetation
  • Invasive Plants
  • Feral Animals
  • Critically Endangered Western Ringtail Possum
  • Ranges-Link Conservation Plan
  • OHCG Governance and Equipment 
  • Archived OHCG Newsletters

There are many ways to help you or your kid connect to nature:
  • Become a citizen scientist
  • Go on a Natureplay adventure
  • Volunteer
  • Go for a walk
  • Participate in event
  • Learn more about where we live and what's around us

Please come visit our office in Mt Barker (in the old railway station alongside the tourist bureau off Albany Hwy) to talk to staff or view archives of information pamphlets, past projects, maps etc.  

Ferals

Cat Resources: Feral, Stray and Domestic
Fox baits
Fox and Cat Trap/s
News Article: FoxBusters Search Weapon
Journal Article, Counting the Cost: Impact of Invasive Animals in Australia 2004 
Journal Article: Kays, R., Dunn, R.R., Parsons, A.W., Mcdonald, B., Perkins, T., Powers, S.A., Shell, L., McDonald, J.L., Cole, H., Kikillus, H. and Woods, L., 2019. The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats. Animal Conservation.
Media release summarizing above project: https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/cats-kill-up-10-times-more-wildlife-than-natural-predators-so-keep-them-indoors/

Western Ringtail Possum Information

Our Albany Possum Story
Spotlighting guide
Backyard guide
Western Ringtail Possums in Albany: Core Habitat, Abundance, and Distribution Report
Citizen Science Program

We acknowledge the Minang and Koreng people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present, and emerging and to the wider Noongar community. 

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Our Groups Story >
      • Meet our Committee of Volunteers
      • Meet Our Staff
      • Our Fellow Community Groups
    • Catchment History
    • Natural Resources
    • Threats >
      • Erosion
      • Cats: Feral, Stray and Domestic
      • Feral Rodents
      • Invasive Plants
    • Natural Wonders >
      • Lakes and Wetlands
      • Biodiversity >
        • Seagrass meadows
        • Spiders
        • Western Ringtail Possum
  • PROJECTS
    • Regional Landcare Program
    • Looking Forward, Looking Back: farm planning
    • "uPtake" fertiliser trial
    • Healthy Estuaries WA >
      • Nutrient Mapping
    • Taking Past Learnings into the Future
    • Ranges Link
    • Past Projects
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Membership
    • Newsletter
    • Citizen Science and other volunteering opportunities >
      • Annual Western Ringtail Possum tally
    • Albany and Surrounds Feral Cat Working Group >
      • Albany and Surrounds Cat Blog
    • Accuspread Field Day Registration
    • Red Card Feral Animal Shoot >
      • Team Registration
    • Grazer Matcher
  • CONTACT US
  • RESOURCES
    • For Youth and the Youthful at Heart