Red Hill South Landcare Group
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Powerful Owls on the Peninsula & Red Hill South AGM
St Georges Church Hall 195 Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill, Victoria, AustraliaLandcare projects in our area focus on assisting landholders to protect and enhance the habitat powerful owls need. Hear from Nicholas Carter; Deakin University who is presently researching, catching and tracking powerful owls on the Peninsula. Your role in aiding the conservation of these endangered co-inhabitants of the Peninsula is important. Red Hill South Landcare […]
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Native Pollinators at My Place
St Georges Church Hall 195 Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill, Victoria, AustraliaLandcare projects assist landholders to protect and enhance the local indigenous flora, which benefits both wildlife and agriculture. Native bees are vital in this context. Mark Hall is an academic who has studied native bees for the last ten\ years and is vice president of the Australian Native Bee Association. He will explain the role […]
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Presentation – Bandicoots started the Diggers Club
St Georges Church Hall 195 Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill, Victoria, AustraliaCome and hear from Eilish Roberts, Southern Brown Bandicoot Outreach Officer, Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, which is home to one of the few remaining populations of Southern Brown Bandicoots in Victoria. Her work involves engaging with a range of audiences and stakeholders to help protect this once widespread marsupial and supporting local communities to create […]
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How to Control Rabbits on your Property
Carranya 356 Baldrys Road, Main Ridge, VIC, AustraliaRabbits are a direct threat to indigenous vegetation and seriously disadvantage native animals due to competition for food and habitat. They cause soil instability and land degradation, threatening the environment, undermining structural assets and contributing to losses in agriculture. Come and learn how to effectively control rabbits on your property using best practice methodology. Guest […]
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Red Hill Show
Red Hill Recreation Reserve 184 Arthurs Seat Road, Arthurs Seat, VIC, AustraliaCome along and meet the 2024 Victorian Landcare Award winner, Mornington Peninsula Landcare Network, at the 2025 Red Hill Show. We will have lots of helpful information to assist landholders in their own conservation efforts, including informative brochures and weed displays. Come and learn about the projects we are running this year, which include the […]
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How to Develop a Weed Management Plan
Balnarring Community Hall 3035 Frankston-Flinders Road, Balnarring, Victoria, AustraliaWithout an effective plan of attack, the task of controlling weeds can seem overwhelming. This workshop provides a practical approach to help landholders determine what’s achievable, where to start, and how to develop an ongoing strategy for managing environmental weeds on their property. The outcomes of environmental weed management can be substantially improved by approaching […]
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The Bradley Method of Sensitive Weed Control
Crib Point Community Hall 7 Park Road, Crib PointJoan and Eileen Bradley developed a series of weed control and native vegetation recovery techniques know as the ‘Bradley method’. It involves methodically clearing small areas in and around healthy native vegetation so that each area is re-colonised by the regeneration of native plants, replacing the weeds. The process showed that, once native vegetation was […]
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Develop an Integrated and Coordinated Pest Animal Program
Mechanics Hall 19 Mechanics Road, Red Hill, VICInvasive pest animals are a big problem impacting on biodiversity and catchment assets and farm productivity on the Mornington Peninsula. Whether its introduced predators such as foxes or feral cats, or introduced herbivivores such as rabbits or deer, it is important to have a strategic approach to pest management. The strategic approach promotes coordinated action […]
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Friend or Foe? Weed Lookalikes Workshop
Flinders Civic Hall 56 Cook Street, Flinders, Victoria, AustraliaDo you know how to tell a European Blackberry apart from a Native Raspberry? Would you know a rare Muttonwood tree if you came across one while weeding Sweet Pittosporum? Do you know your Sallow Wattle from your Blackwood? Many of our indigenous plant species are often mistaken as weeds? Plant identification skills are an […]
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