NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK 2010

COME ALONG AND FIND OUT MORE:
• what lives here
• why the Kimberley is so special.

14-15 August CABLE BEACH
learn about whales, turtles, dugong and seagrass. Kids’activities and plenty to see and do. Bring the kids and have a swim.

Monday 16 August LOTTERIES HOUSE
Come along and hear the Bardi Jawi Rangers talk about their dugong project, and a marine biologist talk about our internationally significant snubfin dolphin population found here in Roebuck Bay. Sausage sizzle to follow at 6:45pm.

28-29 August PENDER BAY, DAMPIER PENINSULA
Join us for a weekend of whale watching and surveying, camping at beautiful Pender Bay. Book now: places strictly limited. $50pp

For bookings and more information,
call Environs Kimberley 9192 1922.

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This full page ad was published in the West Australian
on Monday 12 July 2010

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Save The Dates!

Seagrass event coming soon!

 Dear seagrass volunteers & stakeholders,
 
We have an exciting seagrass event coming soon!
 
Grab your diaries and mark the dates!

Seagrass Watch Training - Click for Poster print version

September 2010 - Seagrass Watch Training
 
When: 10-12 September 2010
Where:Department of Environment & Conservation, 111 Herbert Street, Broome
Register: www.seagrasswatch.org/training.html#workshop10
Courses: Level 1 (basic) and Level 2 (refresher)
Cost: FREE with refreshments provided
 
Back by popular demand! This free community workshop will train participants in seagrass biology, ecology, identification and monitoring.
Participants will venture onto Roebuck Bay's mudflats to practise monitoring a site using the methodology of Seagrass-Watch, the world's largest scientific seagrass monitoring & assessment program. Be sure to register via the link above.
 
For more info, and/or to be emailed a map, call (08) 91921922, 0422244145 or email seagrassmonitoring@gmail.com

P.S. Seagrass for lunch?
 
The Broome Community Seagrass Monitoring Project can visit your workplace or community group during your lunch break, or at any other time that suits you, to give an entertaining and fascinating talk and powerpoint presentation about seagrass. Alternatively, if family groups or just yourself and a few friends would like to hear the talk, we can arrange the venue and you can come to us! Free coffee and muffins provided!! Contact me via the details below to organise.
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Fiona Bishop
Coordinator
Environs Kimberley Seagrass Monitoring Project
www.seagrasswatch.org
www.roebuckbay.org.au/roebuck-bay-seagrass-monitoring.php
www.environskimberley.org.au/seagrass
Phone: 0422244145

The Broome Community Seagrass Monitoring Project is funded by Coastwest and the Port of Broome, co-managed by Department of Environment and Conservation and Environs Kimberley and supported by Seagrass Watch, the world's largest scientific seagrass monitoring and assessment program.

Film "Seagrass: Pastures of the Sea" -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Y5vgswj20
Film "Seagrass: Pastures of the Sea" -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Y5vgswj20

Broome North expansion: threat to local environment including internationally significant wetlands.

A proposal by the WA State Government to clear more than 600 hectares of woodland in Broome to accommodate 12,000 people (a virtual doubling of the town’s population) poses significant threats to the environment.

EK has major concerns about the impacts of clearing on plants and animals, including Northern Brushtail Possums and Agile Wallabies. We are also concerned about the carbon footprint of the proposal, proliferation of weeds and increased pressure on groundwater.

Broome North is expected to have a damaging impact on Roebuck Bay, given the amount of sediment and nutrients that could be washed into Dampier Creek. These could cause dangerous algal blooms, which would choke seagrass beds and harm the marine creatures that depend on them.

Roebuck Bay is listed under the Ramsar Convention as an internationally significant wetland and the Roebuck Bay mudflats are a Threatened Ecological Community under WA State Environmental Law.

Environs Kimberley has provided a submission to the State Government and the Shire of Broome outlining our concerns about the proposal Download:
Broome North EK Submission December 2009
Attachment 1 - Broome Drainage
Attachment 2 - Januburu

Broome Bushland Under Threat

The Port of Broome is proposing to develop 62 hectares of bushland next to Reddell Beach. If approved this important corridor and habitat which supports the Northern Brushtail Possum, gubbinge trees (the fruits of which have the highest vitamin C content of any fruit in the world and are important bushtucker), birds and reptiles would be bulldozed to make room for heavy industry supporting the oil and gas industry.

This area of land is currently zoned an Environmental and Cultural Corridor and according to the Shire’s Town Planning Scheme these reserves are intended as major open spaces within the town which provide:

1. fauna and flora habitats
2. aboriginal heritage and cultural areas
3. major drainage or aquifer recharge areas
4.  outdoor public recreation and
5. conservation of the natural environment

Broome Bushland under threat - Print Version

Lot 500 and Part Lot 350 Kavite Road – proposed rezoning from Environmental Cultural Corridor to Industry

Environs Kimberley is concerned about the ongoing loss of bushland in Broome as well as proposed future development (eg 650 hectares at Broome North). We believe this important Environmental Cultural Corridor should be retained for its intrinsic value and for future generations.

Protect the Kimberley

The Kimberley is under threat!
Visit the new blog site for people interested in all the news about what is happening in the Kimberley area of Western Australia.

http://protect-the-kimberley.blog.ca

Hands Off Country
Kimberley Campaign

Check out this blog site. It's an active campaign against the proposed LNG plant in the Kimberley.

http://handsoffcountry.blogspot.com

Thank you for your support

Environs Kimberley Market Stall
Most Saturday mornings from Easter through to Christmas you will find our information and merchandise stall at the Courthouse Markets in Broome.

The stall features a display stand outlining current issues and campaigns, petitions to sign, membership forms and stickers. There is a great new range of Hemp T-shirts and singlets for men and women with EK silk screen prints, books, cards, hand made soaps, candles and recycled squashed bottles from the Flat Bottle Company.

The stall is run by a team of dedicated volunteers and is well worth a visit! So come along and learn more about our exciting organisation at the EK market stall!

Environs Kimberley meets the last Wednesday of every month.
5.00pm at the Meeting Room,
Broome Lotteries House, Lot 642 Cable Beach Road.
All welcome.