Resilient Clarence - NSW

25/10/2022

Free Webinar - Building resilience to natural hazard risk with Andrew Gissing

5 - 6 pm, 26 October 2022

Over the last three years, Australia has been reminded again of the nature of natural hazard extremes that can strike our nation.

Building resilience to natural hazard events is crucial in the face of expanding communities and climate change.

The presentation will explore the context of natural hazards in Australia and draw on research into how Australia can become more resilient in the face of growing natural hazard-related challenges.

From this presentation, you will gain an understanding of the following:

- the relative risk profile from bushfires, floods, cyclones, earthquakes and hailstorms based on loss
- what is driving the changes in risk profile
- opportunities to build better resilience and cost-effectiveness
- the challenges and moving forward.

Register here
https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2022/10/building-resilience-natural-hazard-risk-45561

28/09/2022

In this video Clarence Valley Council's Senior Weeds Officer Joel Crispin talks about how to win the battle with Tropical Soda Apple. Learn how to identify this w**d and what control methods are used to deal with it.

Joel works with community members to help create w**d management plans and develop strategies to overcome infestations of invasive w**ds.

Meet some local Glenreagh residents to see how they have coped with the Tropical Soda Apple invasion since the bushfires and find out what strategies are working to combat this w**d.

Watch Tackling Tropical Soda Apple in Glenreagh -

Clarence Valley Council's Senior Weeds Control Officer Joel Crispin talk about how to win the battle with Tropical Soda Apple. Meet some local Glenreagh residents…

12/09/2022

Ashby was thrilled to host the Canine for Wildlife team who joined Resilient Clarence at a workshop hosted by on 27 August.

In this video you will meet the Wildlife Canine team including Max, a wildlife detection dog being used to locate rare and endangered fauna such as koalas.

Dogs see the world in terms of how it smells and different breeds of dogs can be utilized by scientists for their highly tuned olfactory systems.

Armed with 250 million scent detectors they are fast and efficient at locating target species and are helping scientists as they study rare and endangered species of wildlife.

Max shows just how easy it is for him to locate a koala in Ashby.

05/09/2022

Do you feel like you need to talk?

Rural Health Connect has a wide database of psychologists to help improve access to mental health service in the bush. Speak to a psychologist over a video call or via a phone call.

For more information or assistance contact [email protected] or call 0427 692 377

www.ruralhealthconnect.com.au

30/08/2022

Angourie Regeneration Post Bushfires

Jacob from Clarence Valley Council's bush regeneration team has been working closely with volunteers from Angourie Community Coastcare to look after the rehabilitation of the bushland around Angourie since the bushfire of 2019.

By working together they are better able to tackle w**ds and give the native bushland the time and space to regenerate.

22/08/2022

You are invited to attend our free community workshop on the use of mosaic and cool burning as a land management tool.

You will learn how to read the landscape and see first-hand how mosaic burning in a careful and considered way is being used to effectively manage land.

You will be looking at the landscape post-burning season, there won't be fire on the ground during this event.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to [email protected] as spaces are limited.

18/08/2022

Produced by Resilient Clarence, this video tells the story of a collaborative approach to land management.

Property owner Barbara Linley is working under the guidance of First Nations fire practitioner Craig Little to bring cool, gentle, mosaic burns back to the landscape with the hope that it will prevent the devastation of the 2019-20 bushfires.

08/08/2022

Wildlife workshop

We are proud to be working with Clarence Landcare to deliver an exciting workshop for everyone interested in wildlife - Monitoring Environmental Change – A Canines for Wildlife and Citizen Science event.

When - Saturday 27 August 10am - 1.30pm
Where - Ashby Hall & Reserve

The day starts at 10am with a presentation by Clarence Landcare including:

• Environmental Resilience
• How we can support wildlife and habitat
• The importance of monitoring ecological change over time
• The role of citizen science and the projects people can be involved in

Followed by a Canine for Wildlife presentation:
• Introducing the Canines for Wildlife team, including the trained conservation detection dogs
• Their work on a range of threatened and invasive species detection.
• A demonstration of the dogs at work information on supporting wildlife and habitat, and the importance of monitoring ecological change over time. You will learn about citizen scientist projects in which you can become involved.

Come enjoy both workshops, or drop in to share some morning tea and watch the charismatic conservation dogs at work from 11:15am.

Everyone is welcome.

RSVP for catering to [email protected] or msg 0432 527 169

07/07/2022

As a part of this year's NAIDOC celebrations, we are sharing this video from the Resilient Clarence workshop for Yaegl students, Culturally Caring for Yaegl Country.

The workshop was held in partnership with Yaegl Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation on Barbara Linley’s bushfire-affected property. We teamed up with Red Cross, Envite, Yaegl Elders and Fire Practitioner Craig Little, who together shared information on healing Country and how to care for Country with cultural appropriateness.

Craig shared with us some of the fire lore knowledge passed on to him from Victor Steffensen, a Tagalaka man and author of Fire Country, which is part of the Resilient Clarence Library Resource Collection. http://ow.ly/Kktx50JQ9MB

24/05/2022

Communicating in Recovery

Sign up for a free professional development workshop with our project partner, Red Cross. It is for anyone interested in emergency management who wants to learn how best to communicate after an emergency.

Using the Red Cross best-practice Communicating in Recovery guide, this training promotes effective communication for anyone working in or affected by emergency recovery.

The workshop will explore communications strategies to help overcome the physical and psychological challenges affected communities may face after a disaster.

The aim is to assist people to communicate more effectively post-disaster, raise awareness of recovery communications and provide an opportunity for recovery workers to network and share ideas.
Upcoming workshops;

Yamba - 7 June - 9am to 5pm - Treelands Drive Community Centre
Grafton - 8 June - 9am to 5pm - Grafton Library

Spaces are limited. To book a spot sign up using the email address below, send us your name, contact details, phone number and email address. Be sure to mention any special dietary requirements for the free lunch.

[email protected]

18/05/2022

Big shout out to ALL Clarence Valley volunteers, including our wonderful emergency volunteers.

It is National Volunteer Week and we are excited to share this Thank You video with you on behalf of all our project partners and the organisers of the Maclean Thank You Day on May 7.

To those in our community who saved the town during the recent floods, and to everyone else, we say:

07/05/2022

So...this just happened...

Thanks to all our emergency services and disaster resilience & recovery agencies, all volunteer groups and all other local residents who helped make the Maclean Thank You Day at Maclean Showgrounds special by forming this Big Heart, guided by our team (it's amazing what people will do for chocolates 🙂 )

This is a big Thank You to everyone who supported our communities during the series of disasters, from the 2019/20 bush fires to the latest floods.

Sending our love...from the heart of Maclean!

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The Thank You Day event was organised by Maclean Chamber of Commerce, St Vincent De Paul and Maclean Lions and this big heart was our creative contribution to make it memorable.

It's going to be on the NBN News tonight.

https://www.clarence.nsw.gov.au/News-articles/Maclean-Thank-You-Day?fbclid=IwAR2W4-1CtWr5AtehbA9mHdbZC81C073iqO8GuDCaaQ4BMwKbkY_qTF_C