Hi everyone and welcome to the New Year.
The Australian Gov
ernment is providing support to Greening Australia to facilitate biodiversity restoration workshops across the country. These workshops will focus on establishing biodiverse plantings throughout the landscape, as well as providing communities with the most up to date methods for reintroducing and managing biodiversity.
Importantly, the workshops will help maximise the outcomes of existing and new natural resource management and environmental programs such as the Clean Energy Future’s Biodiversity Fund. For more information about workshop content, dates and locations click here.
Siwan
The 6th Australian Stream Management Conference is just a few weeks away and I encourage you to get your registrations in for what promises to be a great knowledge sharing and networking event.
Don’t forget that the ARRC is running an interactive seminar on using narrative and story on the 7th of February - we will have film-maker Richard Snashall and social network specialist Graham Durant-Law joining Nerida and myself to share the ways narrative can be used in NRM.
I am also giving a keynote presentation on the Wednesday the 8th of Feb focusing on the impact ‘Managing for Extremes’ can have on people and communities, and what that means for the work and approaches we take as NRM practitioners. We will also have a display stand and I am organising to get a number of Land & Water Australia publications to distribute so bring along a bag! Hope to see you at the conference.
Siwan
The Managing Wetlands Workshop held in Canberra late last year provided information and tools for wetland practitioners based on best practice scientific research. It was an excellent event and I found it an extremely useful forum for knowledge exchange and networking. The proceedings of the workshop are now available, with powerpoint presentations and a booklet summarising key findings presented at the workshop easy to access on line – just follow this link.
Siwan
All the very best to you this Christmas season, we thank you for your support and hope to continue to exist in 2012, though this will depend on securing funding to keep our work going. For the past eighteen months everything you see on this website has been done through volunteer labour and, to be honest, this is not sustainable. We are hoping to get some support for our work in 2012 but we really need you to help us with ideas, support and a commitment to collaboration and knowledge sharing.
We are ending 2011 reasonably cheery as we believe what we are doing is worthwhile and we love working with people who are passionate about our rivers. Rest, refresh and reinvigorate yourselves over the Christmas break and we look forward to working with you in 2012.
We would like to say a particular thanks to those that have worked as part of the ARRC team over the past year – Vikki Bell, Allison Mortlock, Melissa Gabelle, Matt Moore, Peter Rennie, Graham Durant-Law, Richard Snashall, Bruce Boyes, Sandra DeSouza, Phil Price, Ian Rutherfurd, Peter Davies (WA) and Leith Boully.
Siwan and Nerida
Support and funding for the reinvigoration of the NRM Navigator, NRM Evidence Bases and River Rap Publication
Oh to have a large amount of funding to enable us to reinvigorate great knowledge sharing products like the NRM Navigator, NRM e-Base (both developed through the former Knowledge for Regional NRM Program) and a new River Rap (based on the old National Riparian Lands R&D Program RipRap) publication. We would welcome any ideas on how we can secure funding for these products as we are finding that most funding ‘buckets’ tend not to cover maintaining and building relationships and networks, or supporting ongoing resources for science and research knowledge sharing infrastructure.
If we could get these products back out and doing what they do best – sharing knowledge, fostering relationships and building networks, the ARRC could have a secure future. If you have any input, ideas on how we can make this happen please get in touch with us. You might also like to think about sponsoring the first edition of River Rap which could feature work you and your organisations are doing.
Siwan and Nerida
ernment is providing support to Greening Australia to facilitate biodiversity restoration workshops across the country. These workshops will focus on establishing biodiverse plantings throughout the landscape, as well as providing communities with the most up to date methods for reintroducing and managing biodiversity.
Resources, Training and Development | Siwan Lovett | 
15 January 2012 4:41 pm | 
