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For more than 30 years Oyster Harbour Catchment Group has led landcare & natural resource management projects across the Oyster Harbour Catchment.

We promote best practices, implement large-scale on-ground works & collaborate with community stakeholders.

29/10/2026

🌾𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢! 💧
We are seeking a Natural Resource Management (NRM) Officer (0.8 FTE) to work across multiple projects in the Oyster Harbour catchment. The focus of the role will be to deliver soil health, multi-species pasture demonstration trials and drought resilience programs.

The position is fixed term for 12 months with possibility of extension. Workdays are by negotiation, based out of the Plantagenet Landcare office in Mount Barker. The role will coordinate implementation of the Healthy Estuaries WA fertiliser management program, Scaling Success (Drought and Climate Resilience) pasture trials, and Future Ready South Coast (Climate Smart Ag) dam enhancement activities.

If this sounds like the right fit for you and if you'd like to join a team of driven professionals leading practical and innovative outcomes for community and nature visit the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group website to find out more or apply:
🔗https://www.ohcg.org.au/employment-opportunity---nrm-officer.html

⏰Applications close 𝟭𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 for a January 2027 start.
For role related queries please contact [email protected]

26/10/2026

👏E-News | Issue 4 2026
Latest local landcare news on its way to your inbox! Printed copies are also distributed around Mount Barker, have a read over a cup of coffee at your favourite cafe.
🌱We want to again thank all the volunteers and participants who made our 𝑶𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 2026 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 on the 10th October a great success!
In this issue read about:
◾️Healthy Estuaries WA opportunities & events
◾️Grant Success! Drawing the Line: Strategic Plantagenet W**d Control.
◾️Fitz Stirling Priority Place funding continues.
◾️King River Warracoolyup work reaches milestones.
◾️Oyster Harbour Miaritch 2026 Showcase success.
◾️CLAWS toxoplasmosis studies commencing.
◾️Weather Outlook (November to January)
◾️Upcoming Events / Opportunities.

To subscribe to our seasonal E-News, and automatically become a free member please visit:
🔗https://www.ohcg.org.au/newsletter.html

To get a copy of our printed seasonal newsletter for your Mount Barker business please email:
📩[email protected]
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22/10/2026

Join us on the road to success 🌱
A free bus tour with our resident revegetation expert Bruce Radys. Visiting mature stream restoration sites along the upper Kalgan River, finishing with a luncheon at the fabulous Karribank.

📅Thursday 26th November
⏰9:00am - 12:00pm (lunch from 12:30)
📍Karribank, 1983 Porongurup Road (departing and returning)

Seats are limited so secure your spot now! Book on our website
🔗https://www.ohcg.org.au/stream-restoration-bus-tour--agm-2026.html

This event is supported by the State Governments program.

14/10/2026

🩵Wow!💙This weekend the Oyster Harbour Miaritch 2026 Showcase shared our story of local community-led landcare and we are so thankful to everyone who contributed and attended this special Albany 2026 event.

The event highlighted the restoration and protection of Oyster Harbour Miaritch and the wider catchment through sustained actions and investment from our Group and many others over more than 30 years. We heard insights and experiences from local Menang representatives, farmers, scientists and students on the past, present and future of landcare.

The day was complimented by family activities, displays from Oyster Harbour Catchment Group and Healthy Estuaries WA, guided tours of the harbour aboard The Kalgan Queen, live music and a stunning performance from the Mooditch Nop dancers.

We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who assisted on the day and in the lead up to it. This includes but is not limited to the following;
Thank you to all presenters, volunteers and partners Healthy Estuaries WA, CLAWS-Cat Laws and Wildlife Survival, Friends of the Porongurup Range, Albany Senior High School .
Thank you to our Event Coordinator Mae Elliot.
Thank you and 📸 credit to Jenny Feast Photography
Thank you to Captain Jack Kalgan Queen
Thank you to , David Rastrick and Albany Event Hire

🫶And last but definitely not least a big thank you to all of the sponsors and funders who enabled our small team to bring this remarkable event to life;
Ports
Estuaries WA

City of Albany
Natural Resource Management Program WA

If you would like to know more about how to get involved in local community-led landcare or receive notification of our upcoming events please join our free membership by subscribing to our newsletter;
🔗https://www.ohcg.org.au/newsletter.html

13/10/2026

𝐍𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐤, 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐤 - 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐬 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 exhibition is coming to the Mount Barker Visitor Centre from Wednesday the 21st October!

Come along to the launch (10:30am - 11:00am) to hear from a range of guest speakers and from the artists about the inspiration for their pieces. Please RSVP to Green Skills Inc Basil Schur [email protected]

The aim is to bring attention and action in support of conserving our wonderful but endangered Black Cockatoos in WA's south west. 🖤

This NAIDOC Activity Arts program is delivered with support from the National Indigenous Australians Agency, as well as the Shire of Plantagenet, the Koorabup Trust, Green Skills, Southern Aboriginal Corporation, Femmonics and Denmark CRC.

06/10/2026

📣Only a few more sleeps to go until the 𝑶𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 2026 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 down at Emu Point Marina.
📅Saturday 10th October
⏰10:00am - 2:30pm

We have the whole family covered with interesting displays and talks for parents and these great kids activities to keep little hands busy! Learn about the impact of the Oyster Harbour Catchment Group community and how you can get involved.

🌻Make the most of the final weekend of school holidays!

Find out more at:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1MBJKUSbS3/

Or on our website:
https://www.ohcg.org.au/oyster-harbour-miaritch-2026-showcase.html

This event is supported by the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program and Healthy Estuaries WA, Oyster Harbour Catchment Group Inc., Southern Ports, Lotterywest and City of Albany.

30/09/2026

‼️W**ds beware! 🚫
The Oyster Harbour Catchment Group is pleased to share we have received State Natural Resource Management Program WA funding for a significant new project in the Shire of Plantagenet! 🌱 Plantagenet Strategic Landscape W**d Management Partnership – "𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚".

Together with Shire of Plantagenet , local partners and volunteers, we'll be working to protect native habitat, improve landscape resilience and empower our community to take action against invasive w**ds.

Commencing in 2027 this project aims to establish the governance, data systems, coordinated delivery mechanisms, community participation, policy settings and future investment pathways required for long-term environmental w**d management across the mixed-tenure landscapes of the Shire.

Executive Officer Bruce Radys shared the announcement with Plantagenet Volunteer Bushcare group and Shire of Plantagenet President Len Handasyde, saying "𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚 is about strategically engaging a whole of community effort to areas where it can be most effective. The project will build skills, confidence, networks and practical ability to tackle environmental w**ds now and continue, even expand that work into the future."

📩Please stay tuned for more exciting updates by subscribing to our newsletter, automatically giving you free membership.
https://www.ohcg.org.au/newsletter.html

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24/09/2026

📣The Cat Amendment (Local Laws) Bill 2026 passes lower house! We give thanks to community advocates CLAWS-Cat Laws and Wildlife Survival 🐈‍⬛

⚫️In 2019 a group of dedicated Great Southern locals saw the need to provide more information on the impacts of feral and roaming cats on wildlife whilst improving outcomes for pet cats through sharing the benefits of keeping them safely and happily contained at home.

⚫️Through their actions they have contributed to the groundswell of action and community pressure which has seen the Western Australian State Government put the Cat Act (2011) under formal review and last Tuesday (15th Sep) saw the Cat Amendment (Local Laws) Bill backed by both sides of politics.

⚫️This Amendment will enable local councils, if they choose, to enact local laws restricting pet cats to their owner’s premises, prohibiting them from public areas unless certain conditions are met, introducing cat curfews and/or requiring pet cats to be under effective control when beyond owner's premises.

Congratulations to Jenni and the working group of CLAWS, to all the councils who tried repeatedly to improve cat control prior to these changes and other active advocacy groups including but not limited to WA Feral Cat Working Group, Cat Haven WA and the Responsible Cat Ownership - Stirling WA group.
Keep up the great work!

14/09/2026

🌿 The countdown is on! 🌿
We're excited to share the schedule of events for the upcoming .
📅Saturday 10th October
📍Emu Point Marina
⏰10am - 230pm

Join us on the final weekend of the school holidays to explore local Landcare initiatives, meet the people making a difference in our community, and find out how you can get involved.

🌱 Check out the program below and we hope to see you there!

The City of Albany
Lotterywest
Healthy Estuaries WA
Southern Ports

07/09/2026

🐾 National Threatened Species Day | 7 September 🐾
Each year on 7 September, Australians pause to remember the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, the last individual of the species having died at Hobart Zoo on this day in 1936.

Sixty years later, in 1996, National Threatened Species Day was established by the Threatened Species Network, founded by WWF-Australia and the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust, to commemorate the loss of this iconic species and raise awareness of the many others at risk.

Today, the day serves as an important reminder that many of Australia's unique plants and animals continue to face significant threats. Sadly, since 2022, 163 additional species have been listed as threatened. There are now 2,208 flora and fauna species officially listed as threatened under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999.

Every small action counts. This National Threatened Species Day take a moment to consider the threatened species in your area, from the Gilbert’s Potoroo to the Western Ringtail Possum which clings to the urban landscape of Albany, from the raucous Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo to the shy Mallee Fowl. Discover how we can all play a role in protecting the species that make our country so unique. 💚🌿

📸From Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

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2/622 Albany Highway
Mount Barker, WA
6324

Website

http://www.ohcg.org.au/

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