Overview

Strategic Plan

Committee

Current events and activities:

• Regional NRM coordination
  Connecting the King Island community with the Cradle Coast NRM Strategy development, and activities, grants and on-ground works for the sustainable management of our natural resources

• Weeds Management Work
  Weeds targetted by the group to date are: Boneseed, Bridal creeper, Asparagus fern, Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Gorse, Serrated Tussock
  KINRMG completed the Council roadside weed mapping project

• European Wasps have been baited on King Island over the Summer. There may be some reduction in population due to this. One nest was discovered and destroyed using insecticide powder. Nests are now finishing with new queens going off to hibernate over winter. They will then form new nests in Spring. An effort to monitor and bait European Wasps will resume next Spring/Summer. In the meantime, watch out for hibernating queens in wood piles, freight, and warm spots.
  Further Information on European Wasps (includes photos identifying the friendly native flower wasp and the European Wasp)

• Salinity Management
  KISHAP - A project addressing management actions and hazard assessment of salinity on King Island.

• Waterwatch
  Aims:
  To collect sound scientific data on the quality of King Island's key waterways;
  To inform & train the King Island community in "caring for waterways";
  To establish and maintain an island wide community-based water quality program.

• Interim Cat Project
  -continuing

• Fire Recovery Project
  - underway

• Orange Bellied Parrot Project
  -Upcoming

King Island Natural Resource Management Group and its projects are an initiative of the King Island community, supported by the King Island Council and the Federal Government's Natural Heritage Trust Fund.
Other contributors include Crown Consulting, King Island Ports Corporation, King Island Dairy/National Foods, Webster Ltd, King Island Regional Development Organisation, and King Island Courier.

And, of course, thanks to all the volunteers, landholders and in-kind contributors!!

website last up-dated 12/8/2007