Habitat for Wildlife

30/08/2022

Friends of COSS - Nocturnal Safari - Rumbalara
When: Thursday 22 September 5.30 - 7.30pm
Where: Rumbalara COSS Reserve
Cost: FREE, includes a scrumptious light supper
Grab your torch and see Rumbalara Forest come alive at night. You never know what you might spot and hear! It could be the indescribable screeches from Yellow-bellied gliders, the hoots of the Sooty Owl or the flittering of microbats.
Join Naturalist and Ecologist Tom Covell from “Hooked On Nature” as he takes you for a walk on the wild side, and shares with you his knowledge on how to find and discover the treasures you might find in your backyard local reserves or Creek.

Bookings Essential (click on link below to register)
https://www.cen.org.au/events/coss-events/731-friends-of-coss-nocturnal-safari-rumbalara

19/05/2022

This workshop has been CANCELLED - spots available at next workshop on Thursday 16th June - register at cen.org.au/events

Swift Parrot Bird Survey Walk next Friday 3rd June 9am-12pm, Bateau Bay. Join us on a FREE guided bird walk along Saltwater Creek in Bateau Bay with Kaye Pointer from Central Coast Group Birding NSW. Scrumptious morning tea included!
Bookings essential - https://www.cen.org.au/events
Observe and listen out for Swifty’s and other local birds.
Learn their calls and how to identify them. Identify their feed trees, look for profusely flowering eucalypts (especially Swamp mahogany, Black butt and Spotted gum).
Find out how you become a citizen scientist and contribute to bird data. Searches and sightings by birdwatchers are critical to scientific knowledge and conservation of the Swift Parrot.
GREAT NEWS! Swifty’s are up this way! They were sighted near Cessnock about a week ago.

12/04/2022

Nocturnal Safari - Friday 22nd April, 5 - 7.30pm
Grab your torch and see the Strickland Forest come alive at night. You never know what you might spot and hear! It could be the indescribable screeches from Yellow-bellied gliders, the hoots of the Sooty Owl or the flittering of microbats.

Come and join Naturalist and Ecologist Tom Covell from “Hooked On Nature” as he takes you for a walk on the wild side, and shares with you his knowledge on how to find and discover the treasures you might find in your backyard local reserves or Creek.
Click on link below to register - be quick, only a few spots left
https://www.cen.org.au/events/coss-events/578-coss-connections-nocturnal-safari-narara

04/11/2021

We have a few spots available
Join us at Copacabana and help restore an Endangered Ecological Rainforest found along a tributary of Merchants Gully Creek.
Click on link below to register
https://www.cen.org.au/events/coss-events/634-coss-connections-riparian-restoration-planting-workshop

06/10/2021

Expressions of Interest

Bushfire Recovery Landcare Green teams - tackling weeds and restoring habitat together

Do you live on the Central Coast on a semi-rural property and have 0.5ha or more of native bushland? Do you want to assist in conserving and restoring habitat connectivity after the last devastating bushfires?

Are you interested in forming a ‘Green team’ Landcare group in your area with other like-minded locals to tackle weeds together on each other’s properties and plant local species of flora?

Expressions of interest needed: Register your interest through the link below or get in touch with us to find out what support we can offer or to find a Green team near you

https://www.cen.org.au/events/cen-event-list/621-bushfire-recovery-greenteams

21/07/2021

The National Landcare Conference is the largest knowledge sharing convention for the Landcare community.

24/05/2021

Less than a week to go before the wonderful and extremely knowledgeable Maree McCarthy helps us better understand our garden spaces and the value they hold as habitat for wildlife.

Join us this Saturday at Rumbalara Environmental Education Centre to learn all about the diverse variety of native plants that will help attract wildlife to your garden paradise! Whether its the songs of birds or the buzz of bees that your after, you will be sure to discover the secrets at our Planting for Wildlife Workshop.
Morning tea is provided and local native plants will be available on the day, just head to cen.org.au/events to register your spot.

22/04/2021

Join us for this super pollinators workshop to learn all about Aussie native bees and their vital role in supporting local biodiversity. Get hands on and create your very own solitary bee hotel to help the native bees in your garden and local areas!

10:30am - 12:00pm Friday 30th April 2021
147 Maidens Brush Rd, Wyoming NSW 2250

For more information or to book:
www.cen.org.au/events

16/04/2021