Municipality
Burnie
Funding Status
Fully Supported
Achievement Plans
To rehabilitate and protect coastal habitat for native wildlife, with the focus on penguins and shorebirds. The work will be divided into 3 zones with one area focused on each year. Our aim is to ensure that, even with the increasing erosion along the coastline, there will be suitable nesting and resting sites.
Methods
We will be holding a community meeting in early May to invite others to join in with our project for 2019, which will focus on the area opposite Young's Veg Shed Camdale, and eastwards for about 200m. In addition, we are also involving the local primary school to assist with seed raising, with the aim of providing plants for revegetation in the area opposite Cooee Primary School in 2020. We are also working with TAFE students, both with plant propagation and making artificial penguin burrows.
Natural Values
Along with much of the North-West coast, the area from Cooee Point to the Cam River suffered significant erosion during the Winter storm surges and king tides of 2018. Erosion has decimated penguin (and shorebird) habitat along Cooee Beach where the foreshore has been cut away to the train line. As a result, colonies of Little Penguins have moved westwards and are now vying for nesting sites alongside the resident birds through the Camdale area. Dead wood and weed invasions are restricting access and nesting sites.
Amount
$1k - $5k
