24th Wimmera Biodiversity Seminar
Theme: Farming and Biodiversity
This year the 23rd Wimmera Biodiversity Seminar will be held over 5 Thursday's from 2nd to 30th September.
Recordings of each seminar are available on the 2021 Wimmera Biodiversity Seminar Series - YouTube
Thursday 2 September 11:00am - 12:30pm
Angie Haslem (La Trobe University) - Tracking the recovery of birds following revegetation on farms
Elia Pirtle (Victorian Volcanic Plains Biosphere) - Victorian Volcanic Plains Biosphere Project
Thursday 9 September
Jim Radford (La Trobe University) - Farm-scale Natural Capital Accounting- what is it and why is it good for farmers?
Danny Pettingill (Loddon Plains Landcare) - Designing resilient and adaptive community-based landscape restoration projects
Thursday 16 September
Karen O'Keefe & Bronwyn Bant (Corangamite & Wimmera CMAs) - Tailoring NRM programs to reach new participants, including rural women, who are influential decision makers on farms
Tammi Jonas (Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA)) - Farming, First Peoples, and Biodiversity: Farming in Common with Nature
Thursday 23 September
La Vergne Lehmann (Barengi Gadjin Land Council) - Working together- Returning kangaroo grass to the landscape
Colin Seis (Regenerative Pasture Farmer) - Holistic planned grazing & Multi species pasture cropping
Thursday 30 September
Jess Gardner & Zoe Birnie (Greening Australia) - Factoring Climate Change Into Restoration Works -
Selecting Species From a Climate Adjusted Provenance
Steven Hobbs - Biodiversity & Agriculture, Growing undercover
