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Taken during an NHVP (Newcastle & Hunter Valley Photographers) group meet at the Galgabba Point Landcare site, South Swansea, Lake Macquarie.
Galgabba Point at Swansea is home to many threatened animal and plant species, but not long ago it was being used as an unofficial rubbish dump. Its continued degradation was not something Sharon McCarthy was willing to watch.
So she gave up her full-time job, set up the Galgabba Point Landcare group and began working towards saving this significant eight-hectare bush area.
"The area contains an endangered ecological community, and threatened species, but it was being strangled by weeds, abused and regularly burnt, and the wetland had been backfilled with rubbish," Sharon said.
[Australian Government Natural Resource Managment (NRM) website]
The work Sharon and her Landcare team (many of them volunteers) have done to help restore this site is a great example of how, with patience determination and dedication, damaged land can be rehabilitated back to a thriving natural ecosystem.
Toadfish
Taken during an NHVP (Newcastle & Hunter Valley Photographers) group meet at the Galgabba Point Landcare site, South Swansea, Lake Macquarie.
Galgabba Point at Swansea is home to many threatened animal and plant species, but not long ago it was being used as an unofficial rubbish dump. Its continued degradation was not something Sharon McCarthy was willing to watch.
So she gave up her full-time job, set up the Galgabba Point Landcare group and began working towards saving this significant eight-hectare bush area.
"The area contains an endangered ecological community, and threatened species, but it was being strangled by weeds, abused and regularly burnt, and the wetland had been backfilled with rubbish," Sharon said.
[Australian Government Natural Resource Managment (NRM) website]
The work Sharon and her Landcare team (many of them volunteers) have done to help restore this site is a great example of how, with patience determination and dedication, damaged land can be rehabilitated back to a thriving natural ecosystem.