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Welcome new residents and planting update

We are excited to announce five new Randalls Bay residents! Our beloved swans have hatched this year’s family of cygnets. In planting updates, the rain is very welcome and they are thriving and growing really well. We have just finished fertilising the two previous years plantings so the rain has just come at the right…
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Endangered species planting

Thanks to FORB’s collaborative work with Kelly Simpson, senior ecologist with North Barker, walkers on Echo Sugarloaf Reserve may observe four areas of new plantings. The plantings are of the endangered species Ozothamnus floribundus. This species is considered at high risk due to its extremely small population size. It’s only known location is at Merchants…
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Sharyn wins the Tasmanian Premier’s Landcare Award

To be considered for The Tasmanian Premier’s Landcare Award, a member of the Landcare Tasmania community must be well recognised as an innovator or role model, have provided inspiration to the community, or have built widespread engagement or understanding of Landcare. Sharyn has always been an extraordinary volunteer and her work with us has been…
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The Tasmanian Land Conservancy helps to establish a new conservation covenant at Randalls Bay

On 8 July 2022, The Tasmanian Land Conservancy published the following article on their website: Coming together for the land protection at Randalls Bay The Tasmanian Land Conservancy recently helped to establish a new conservation covenant at Randalls Bay, in Tasmania’s far south. The 28.5 ha parcel of land, owned by the Friends of Randalls…
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FORB work featured in the Mercury

On 23 November 2018, the purchase of the Quarry Reserve made headlines in the Mercury: Friends of Randalls Bay Coastcare launch fundraiser to preserve coastal land A POPULAR parcel of coastal land near Cygnet could become a permanent public reserve if a fundraising mission launched this week is successful. Friends of Randalls Bay Coastcare has…
