CEC Message:
Local Bush Regenerator Ian Walker (whose latest book ‘Bringing Back the Big Scrub’ is for sale at the CEC shop) is asking local landholders, residents and businesses in Murwillumbah and surrounding regions to participate in a funding opportunity aimed at improving fish habitat in the Tweed River system. The Caldera Environment Centre supports this initiative and urges people who are interested in learning more about this grant to contact Ian Walker. Please read the following information.
A Project for Murwillumbah
Attn: Murwillumbah
Dear Business and/or Individual,
The Federal Government through the Department of Planning and Infrastructure has available FISH ACTION GRANTS of up to $40,000.00 for any project which it deems will help preserve or improve HABITAT FOR FISH.
Their website is : http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/hag
I am writing this open letter and distributing it personally to many businesses in Murwillumbah in the hope that if you are as keen as I am to see the metropolitan riparian river banks reclaimed with fish friendly native species, to please send me an email:
iantwalker@bigpond.com expressing your support.
I will print your words and include them in the application process to help secure funding.
I am not new to the area, I have been here for 40 years and witnessed a gradual decline of both fish in the river and the metropolitan riparian native vegetation.
We need to start somewhere and include the river in the marketing value of Murwillumbah.
I understand that some people will not approve of large native rainforest trees being planted in some places, however there are many sites along the river within the town where smaller shrubs and trees will help support the river banks and provide long term shelter, habitat and food for our dwindling fish stocks!
Your support would be warmly welcomed and I will try to keep you posted. Grant applications close on the 27 September unfortunately so there is little time.
Please send me an email with your views and business name.
Surely this is a project we can all benefit from!
Thanks for your time
ian walker
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