Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW visits OzGREEN
We were delighted to spend an hour on the banks of the beautiful Never Never Creek in Bellingen Shire with Her Excellency The Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC Governor of NSW and some of our Bellingen Riverwatch partners.
The Governor and her husband, Mr Denis Wilson, were very interested in the Critically Endangered Bellinger River Snapping Turtle and the ways in which the Bellingen Shire community is working together with State and Local Government to ensure the Bellinger River remains healthy to support all life forms for many generations to come.
Bellingen Riverwatch volunteers and staff collected a waterbug sample to showcase Bellingen Riverwatch’s macroinvertebrate monitoring program, the largest of its kind in Australia.
Hosted by Sue Lennox, AM, and Anton Judovalkis from OzGREEN, speakers included Josh Maher and Natalie Engelman, Australian Fauna Management, Andrew Yager, from Bellinger Landcare, Amy Denshire from OzGREEN, Justine Elder from Bellingen Shire Council and Bellingen Riverwatch volunteers, Helen and Tess.
A huge thanks to our Bellingen Riverwatch partners - the Department of Planning and Environment and its Saving our Species Program, the Department of Planning and Environment’s Flood Recovery Program for Water Quality Monitoring, Bellingen Shire Council, Healthy North Coast, Vendart Diagnostics, North Coast Local Land Services, and Apex Enviro Solutions - and our community volunteers as well as the Governor of NSW for recognising the important environmental work being done in Bellingen Shire.
For more information about Bellingen Riverwatch, visit www.ozgreen.org/br or contact Sam on sam@ozgreen.org.au.