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Friends of Malabar Headland members have looked after the Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub for 30 yrs, weeding bitou, lantana and pampas. The founding members of Friends of Malabar Headland have looked after the Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS) for 30 years, weeding bitou, lantana and pampas. FoMH was formed in April 2000. We continue weeding every week on Thursday and Sunday mornings, 9am-1pm. We hold information stalls at various community events in Maroubra and Malabar throughout the year. ESBS is a unique association of special plants that grow on 10,000+ year old sand dunes, extremely low in nutrients. Consequently there is a very high number of individual plant species present in ESBS - over 360! It is precious, unique and under threat. We intend to make sure it is protected.
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We walked to Boora Pt last week in a shower of rain, and saw a great many Christmas Jewel Spiders in their webs, Austracantha species.
Manly beach-goers surprised by echidna visit
Must have come from the ESBS at North Head. Wonderful! Now, if we could get some echidnas for Malabar Headland...
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Happy New Year everyone. Here's a picture of Barry, Getting Old and Living Dangerously (GOLD) - after he dug up an umbrella tree root just before Christmas.
EPBC (Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation) Referral Notices
Sad news about our visiting birds in Botany Bay - numbers are dramatically down due to Climate Change effects - rising waters cover mud flats on the migration routes, etc.
In the North Head Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub, they are reintroducing marsupial mammals!! Read all about it: http://www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/north-head-sanctuary.aspx
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We celebrated another year of bush care under the Christmas bush yesterday.
Search underway for fisherman missing at Sydney beach
This poor man was swept off the rock platform at Boora Pt to his death today. PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES NOT TO GO ROCK FISHING AROUND MALABAR HEADLAND, OR IF THEY DO, GET THEM TO WEAR LIFEJACKETS.
Dame-Claire
The Golden Bulldozer Award was presented to Premier Mike Baird last Friday by the people, for outstanding environmental destruction in NSW. Very well deserved IMHO.
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Today during bush care we saw a lovely little lizard - Lesueur's velvet gecko. It was a bit sluggish, and tried to get away from me by hiding up my trouser leg!
Corinne
Some of us are heading over to Manly on the ferry on Friday morning to present Baird with his award.
Photos from Friends of Malabar Headland's post
Last Saturday many of our members attended the annual Randwick Council Christmas Lunch, where the Council says "thank you" to all the volunteers who do bush care in their many sites and also to us for doing bush care on Malabar Headland. This year it was held at the Prince Henry Community Centre, and before the meal we were treated to a wonderful talk by Elke, an expert on native bees. Photos below. If you missed out, be sure to catch up with fellow FoMH members tomorrow evening as we celebrate Christmas after our Committee meeting. Meeting: 6.30pm in the DOWNSTAIRS room at St Marks Church, Malabar, cnr of Franklin and Victoria Sts, (up the steps). Xmas celebration: same place from 7.30pm Please BRING A PLATE TO SHARE, and a beverage of your choice.
Bob
Not from our Headland, alas, but so cute! A pygmy possum, injured, rescued & cared for, now healthy, now released.
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