You know winter is upon us when you’ve had the fire going now for the past couple of weeks, like I have! To top that off, I’m currently in isolation with COVID, despite having dodged it till now, even when my wife had it a few months ago.
Congratulations to the new Australian Government.
Our landscape repair and rehydration work has always received bipartisan support, so we look forward to being able to brief the new ministers on our projects and their importance to meeting Australia’s climate challenge.
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[Professional development at the Mulloon Institute!]
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Following on from World Environment Day earlier this month, we are super proud to be launching our new film, ' Resilient Landscapes for a Sustainable Future', about our work with communities around Australia to restore and rehydrate catchments at the landscape scale. |
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Catchment Remediation Code |
Mulloon's Law Committee are seeking organisations to help draft an outcomes-based, flexible set of technical provisions for the design, construction and performance of Landscape Rehydration Works in NSW (and secondarily, Australia).
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National Soil & Carbon events |
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A ‘Weir Optimisation Tool’ has won best poster at the 2022 Floodplain Management Australia Conference. The tool automatically optimises weir positions in a river reach to generate the greatest pool volume for the least number of weirs
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We are excited to announce Vitasoy’s sponsorship of our work over the next five years to help us repair and rehydrate Australian landscapes!
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Mulloon Rehydration Initiative |
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Westview - diary of a leaky weir |
Join us on a journey as we take you through the process of installing the leaky weir at 'Westview', as part of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
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Making connections, healing Country |
A powerful, collaborative workshop connecting and sharing knowledge of landscape rehydration and cultural awareness has been held between the Mulloon Institute and Back to Country.
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Enthusiastic members from ANU Intrepid Landcare have visited Mulloon Creek Natural Farms to volunteer their time planting trees at 'Duralla' as part of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
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The 2019-2020 Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Survey is now complete. The science team has also been compiling historical hydrological data for the DataStream system and working on cross section surveys for stream gauges.
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Catchment Rehydration Selection Tool |
TMI, HydroTerra and the NSW Department of Primary Industries Agriculture are developing a tool to evaluate catchment-scale regions across NSW for the suitability of landscape rehydration works.
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Mulloon Creek Natural Farms |
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On the farms we’ve had a continuation of the extremely wet weather driven by the extended La Niña and negative Indian Ocean Dipole events. As a result, conditions in the paddocks have been quite poor for livestock and staff alike.
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Rebuilding threatened frog habitat |
Thanks to a NSW Government grant, we're rebuilding habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog by reconnecting the Molonglo River with its adjacent floodplain.
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Landscape rehydration restores biophysical processes which have been disrupted or degraded due to anthropogenic impacts. Find out what we've been busy doing at various locations in ACT and NSW.
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Staff visited WA earlier this year, a literature review is underway of landscape rehydration works in WA, on-ground works underway in Boyup Brook, and the final three properties have been chosen for the WA Community Stewardship grant!
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The Queensland team are working hard to complete projects across the dry tropics. Two projects will have machines on the ground over the next few months to help deliver transformative landscape rehydration measures to northern landscapes.
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Mosaics, patterns + patches
Our wonderful citizen scientist artists are creating mini-landscape paintings on hexagonal tiles to visualise the compelling story of ecological change and landscape rehydration.
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Trialling curriculum
A saturated catchment and persistent rain have proven to be the best training environment for trialling some of the technical modules of our Advanced Landscape Rehydration Curriculum with our staff!
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Students from The Scots College have been amongst the first to interact with our new geomorphology model during a recent educational visit to Mulloon Creek Natural Farms, where they learnt about soils, streams, erosion and landscape rehydration.
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As the demand for our work grows, so too does our team need to expand. Welcome to our new landscape planners: Jack Smart, Tony Wells, Paris Capell and Erin Healy! Learn more about our team here. |
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Recent Workshops & Visits
Upcoming events
[Photo: Brigitte Brocklesby]
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Finally, as winter commences and we approach the end of the financial year, please consider supporting our internationally recognised environmental work.
Donating $50 or more towards our National Rehydration Initiative, will help our education team continue developing landscape rehydration our curriculum so it can be rolled out across Australia, to farmers in different climates and bioregions.
Huge thanks for the very generous support of individuals and philanthropic organisations whose donations currently made our work possible!
Cheers,
Gary Nairn AO
Mulloon Institute, Chairman
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