First Committee meeting for 2019 will be held on Sunday 17th February. All members are welcome to attend. We will be meeting at the picnic shelter at the beginning of Mavista Falls walk. Bring your own chair, snack or lunch and a cup for coffee. Optional walk up the falls track after meeting.
Contact Marg bien.network@gmail.com for agenda
Kaylene Allan – Cat Management Officer, Kingborough Council, reports here on the many and various activities that have been undertaken on Bruny Island since June 2018.
Bruny Islanders are invited to submit their views on the By Law and cat management in these two surveys.
With roots in 2016, a small band of interested people are developing an approach to accounting across environmental, social and economic indicators for Bruny Island.
Bruny Life , a survey funded through Kingborough Council to assess peoples’ attitudes and desires for the future of Bruny Island, recommended that such an approach be developed, and the Bruny Island Environmental Accounting proposal has been given the thumbs up from both the Bruny Island Advisory Committee and BIEN to date.
As it is critical that the island community feel ownership of the process, this will be developed over the coming months.
The proposal has also attracted interested from the University of Tasmania, where workshops have been held to assess how researchers there can best contribute to the ideas.
Four fabulous days celebrating the bird life of Bruny Island
For the latest information about the various activities happening on Bruny Island in relation to feral and domestic cat management see the document here by Kaylene Allan, Cat Management Officer at Kingborough Council.
Topics covered in this update are:
The Bruny Island Cat Management Project is
generously supported by many partners
BIEN committee meeting. All members welcome.
As part of the Bruny Island Livability Study being conducted at the moment you are invited to attend a special workshop for BIEN members to discuss and raise observations in relation to the environment and possible actions and solutions.
A great opportunity to have a collective input into this important issue.
There will also be Community Survey forms available to complete if desired, for those who have not yet completed their personal survey.
To RSVP or more information please contact E:bien.network@gmail.com or
Mathew Fagan
Coordinator
Bruny Island Liveability Study 2017-18
P: 0427 400106
E: admin@brunylife.com
As part of the Department of State Growth’s Bruny Main Road upgrade project, seven under-road culverts and associated penguin fences were installed before the 2017/18 Little Penguin Eudyptula minor breeding
season at the Neck colony. As the numbers of returning penguins increased as the breeding season progressed, so did their adoption and use of the culverts, so that by the end of the season in January 2018, very few birds were recorded with cameras along the fence line on the roadside.
Read the full report by Dr Eric Woehler, Peter Vertigan and Regi Broeren of Birdlife Tasmania here.
Inside with Cats is a partnership between Kingborough Council, Ten Lives Cat Centre, Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Bruny Island Environment Network.
This series of 5 videos introduces six Kingborough cats (along with their humans), who are embracing life on the inside. Inside with Cats is not just about containing cats inside a house, it also explores the various options these owners have used for outdoor enclosures or walking harnesses, and how they keep their cats safe, happy and healthy.
To view the videos go to this link. https://www.kingborough.tas.gov.au/2018/03/inside-with-cats/
Three community groups on Bruny Island joined to call for a moratorium on proposed expansion of finfish farming in Storm Bay.
Friends of North Bruny Inc. (FONB), Bruny Island Comm-
unity Association (BICA) and the Bruny Island Environment Network (BIEN) today announced they are joining forces to demand a moratorium on expansion of finfish farming in the waters surrounding
Bruny Island including Storm Bay. The moratorium objectives are included in their joint submission regarding Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna’s expansion plans in Storm Bay lodged on Wednesday 17th .
Spokesperson for the groups Mr. Gerard Castles Vice President of FONB said,“We are NOT trying to stop fish farms, but we want a truly sustainable approach to finfish farming in the Bruny bioregion.” What we are calling for is a moratorium until such time as finfish farming is considered in relation to all other uses and users of resources in the waters surrounding Bruny Island and across Storm Bay.
“Our own research has shown that what is planned around Bruny is a massive expansion and we are calling on Minister, Jeremy Rockliff, to put a moratorium on finfish farming expansion until community concerns are addressed” The argument is not about marine farming per se. It is about the use, development and management of all resources in the Bioregion.
See the joint submission here.
