Resilience – Spring 2024 💚

Chair report

Mulloon Institute has advocacy as one of our core activities. We actively engage with government departments, government bodies and politicians in efforts to facilitate landscape rehydration.

And to our pleasant surprise, we are seeing little, surprising wins everywhere… the mindshift has begun.

CEO report

The Oxford Dictionary has defined resilience as the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. As an organisation, Mulloon Institute not only helps develop resilience in landscapes but we have developed resilience through recovering quickly from difficulties.

National agenda

Save The Date – The Hon. Gary Nairn AO Memorial Service

The Hon. Gary Nairn AO’s State Memorial Service will be held on Friday 22 November at Mulloon Institute's Home Farm, 3585 Kings Highway Bungendore.

Details on how to RSVP to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet will follow, please watch our NEWS page and/or Social Media channels for the latest updates. Pictured The Hon Gary Nairn AO, left, inaugural Mulloon Institute Chairman with Mulloon Institute Founder, Tony Coote.

Motions of Condolence

Motions of Condolence were passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to acknowledge Gary Nairn’s wonderful legacy following his untimely passing in early June. Watch them here.

International agenda!

Carolyn Hall recently joined the Regenerative Agriculture and Livestock Delegation to Zambia with the Coaliation for Conservation. Her 5-part blog series starts here.

Nature Positive Water

WSAA recently published 'Nature Positive Water', highlighting the varied ways water is critical to a nature-positive future, and the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is highlighted in one of the published chapters.

Communities of Practice Project

Mulloon Institute recently hosted a four-day intensive course on landscape rehydration in the Western Australian wheatbelt. This event brought together a dynamic group of 20 NRM professionals, all eager to share knowledge and inspire positive change in their communities.

Soils For Life have been working closely with our CoPP team and the Northern Tablelands Communities of Practice group (made up of farmers from the Swan Brook catchment and beyond, GWYMAC Landcare, Swan Vale Landcare and Northern Tablelands Local Land Services) to showcase the catchment community working together at a recent Boots On Ground event in May. A newly published article and video have captured the event, with a case study to follow.

Science updates

The latest from the Science & Monitoring team

Frosty mornings and windy days under sunny skies have kept the Science and Monitoring team on their toes this winter.

New animations coming!

We are thrilled to be collaborating with Dr Laura Norman, Supervisory Research Physical Scientist at the US Geological Survey on the next three animations in our learning programs series.

Mulloon iNaturalist project

For keen citizen scientists and users of iNaturalist, the Mulloon Research and Monitoring team have set up an iNaturalist Project for the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.

ANU Design students getting crafty

ANU's School of Art and Design have been busy with the Mulloon catchment as a focus for prototypes and textile storytelling

Read more here and here

Mulloon Consulting update

The Mulloon Consulting team has been hard at work across Australia on a variety of exciting and challenging projects in recent months. Read on for some key insights into their recent work.

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms

Spring update

Rainfall has returned to 'average' this winter on the farms, enabling a successful calving season and boosting the chicken flock rotations.

Events

Upcoming events

All upcoming workshops, bootcamps and events are listed on our website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you out there soon!

Find an event near you

Here is our call to action. If you have any connections with MPs, senior public servants or other relevant officers in this space, now is the time to get in touch with them, provide them with a copy of the Proposal for a National Code of Practice for Landscape Rehydration & Restoration, and seek their support for the Code.

Cheers,

Matt Egerton-Warburton

Chair, Mulloon Institute & Mulloon Law Committee

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