Posts from July 2011
National Tree Day – Sunday 31st July
National Tree Day is upon us again folks. Sunday week will be the day to head out to a site somewhere and plant a tree. To locate a tree-planting site you can visit the National Tree Day website and enter your postcode for your nearest site. There’s the rub – no sites appear in Alice
The Year of the Bat
This little beauty is Hill’s Sheathtail Bat. While it might have a face that only a mother could love, these little mammals have a crucial role in our ecosystems. We have at least nine species of small insectivorous bats (microchiroptera) here in Alice and while you won’t hear most of them, they are certainly present
Geoff & Denise Purdie’s Alice Springs Bird Disc Project
Some exciting news today with the announcement of a new project initiated by Land for Wildlife stalwarts, The Purdies. Anyone who has had the fortune of visiting their beautiful property out in Ilparpa, will have noticed the abundant birdlife around their home. Geoff and Denise have fostered an interest in the birdlife of Alice Springs
Devil’s Advocate Deadline Looms
Douglas Adams, the late, great, author of the Dirk Gently and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novels, was fond of saying how he loved deadlines. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go past!” Well, a deadline approaches. Before it gets to the point of making that lovely whooshing noise, get scribbling and
Got Snails?
Land for Wildlife is putting out the call this week to all friends and members who have fig trees on or near their properties. We’ve been talking with local land snail expert Mark Carter, and he says that these trees are a favourite haunt for many species of inland gastropod. Here in Central Australia we
ECOFAIR Website up and running
Exciting news this morning with a message from Jimmy Cocking at ALEC to say that the Desert Smart Ecofair website is online. We hope that you’ve all cleared your diaries from the 19th to the 21st of August, but in case you have forgotten, you can now go and check out the website. It comes
Show Weekend Draws New Members
The LfW/GfW stand at the show this year was a great success. Accommodated once again by the good folks at the Australian Plant Society, we had a steady stream of visitors and many new property owners interested in signing up to the program. We are expecting to get about 20 new members out of the