Volunteer to clean up Roebuck Bay
10 Jan 2012 - 19 Jun 2012
MAKE A NEW YEARS’ RESOLUTION TO VOLUNTEER IN A PROJECT THAT HELPS INFORM BETTER MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF BROOME’S COAST
TO FIND OUT ABOUT VOLUNTEERING FOR 2012
Go to the Roebuck Bay Working Group website which has a volunteering calendar and information about the many projects and activities on Broome’s coast.
http://www.roebuckbay.org.au/pdfs/Roebuck-Bay-Volunteer-Calendar.pdf
|
|
|
TURTLE MONITORING AT CABLE BEACH
AT THE CRACK OF DAWN FROM NOVEMBER 1st to February 28, small teams of volunteers and visitors patrol six kilometres of Cable Beach looking for signs of overnight turtle activity. Three teams patrol two kilometres each, recording new nests or, later in the season, details of hatched nests. If you are lucky you might even see a little hatchling or two making its way into the ocean at the start of a journey that will, 20 or 30 years from now, bring it back to these shores to start the process again. Full training and equipment is provided.
Contact Conservation Volunteers Broome Sea Turtle Information
P 9192 6198 E broome@conservationvolunteers.com.au
Bring Sandshoes, hat, sunscreen and water. Children need to be accompanied by an adult.
SEAGRASS MONITORING
Seagrass Monitoring
Four times a year community volunteers gather on the shores of Roebuck Bay to enjoy fresh muffins and a hot coffee and monitor the health of Broome’s seagrass meadows - one of our bay’s most fundamental yet fragile ecosystems. March out onto the mudflats, follow the dugong trails and learn about our unique intertidal creatures and seagrass ecology, whilst contributing to an important dataset that helps us monitor the health of Roebuck bay.
Monitoring Dates for January 2012
January 26 05.30 (hrs) for a 5.45 start Port slipway
January 27 05.30 (hrs) for a 5.45 start Demco Beach car park
January 28 06.30 (hrs) for a 6.45am start Town Beach car park
Contact Kylie Weatherall and Jules Rau P 9192 1922 E seagrass@environskimberley.org.au
Bring sandshoes or mud booties, hat, sunscreen and water. Children need to be accompanied by an adult.