Bird Sanctuary Ecology Summit The Ecology Summit is a two-day event to be held in July/ August 2015. The summit will be aimed at understanding the ecology of the Bird Sanctuary through two streams; using storytelling to evaluate changes in ecology and local community sentiment and exploring current data being gathered to understand how we can best protect shorebirds and other important environmental components throughout the years. To register your interest in attending, or presenting at, the summit contact Arkellah Irving. Community Bulletin The Lakes Hub is an initiative of the Milang and District Community Association Inc. funded by the Australian Government and the South Australian Government's Murray Futures program. Number 222 26 May 2015 Planting season gearing up A lifetime working in the environment, but there is always more to learn. This Lakes Hub contacts fortnight, having never been involved in a tubestock planting as large as the Milang Office CLLMM vegetation works, I leant about how ‘holding stations’ work, helping phone 08 8537 0808 collect up all the plants from the nurseries and redistributing them out to the [email protected] planting sites on a daily basis. Meningie Office This lovely group of blokes are phone 08 8575 1830 the seasonal fire crew from the [email protected] Natural Resources Adelaide and www.lakeshub.com Mount Lofty Ranges Region Fire facebook.com/lakeshub Management Unit. They are Faith Coleman here for the planting season, Interim Lakes Hub Coordinator with a range of tasks, including Andrew Dawes managing the Noonameena Lakes Hub – Info. & Admin. Officer Meningie and Poltalloc hold stations, Robynne Barrett weeding and planting near the Lakes Hub Office Admin assistant (part time) Meningie shacks. I am looking forward to Carole Richardson hearing about their progress. Community Nurseries Network Coordinator Other things happening around the lakes are a sudden influx of Pelicans. (part time) Milang Jo Scott Maybe looking for somewhere to breed? Maybe someone who knows more Admin Milang about this bird can tell me what is happening... Or maybe it is time to go for a paddle. GWLAP Office 8537 0807 Faith Coleman www.gwlap.org.au Will Miles National Reconciliation Week GWLAP - Projects Manager Lower Lakes and Coorong Projects National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is celebrated across Australia each year Regina Durbridge between 27 May and 3 June. The dates commemorate two significant GWLAP - Monitoring & Evaluation Project Officer milestones in the reconciliation journey—the anniversaries of the successful Aaron Cheesman 1967 referendum (27 May) and the High Court Mabo decision (3 June). GWLAP - Revegetation Planner/ Coordinator -shared position The week is a time for all Australians to Kerri Bartley GWLAP - Community Revegetation learn about our shared histories, Program Project Officer cultures and achievements and to explore how each of us can join the Coorong-Tatiara LAP national reconciliation effort. Jonathan Starks For more information, click on the CTLAP - Revegetation Works Coordinator Meningie 0419 049 208 image alongside, which will take you Samantha Blight to Reconciliation Australia's website. CTLAP - Implementation Officer Meningie 0447 900001 Page 1 Notable Residents of Raukkan Between this and the current review of Environmental Groups tax-deductibility status, (Source: Wikipedia) and increasing generosity from the Australian public comes very high on the wish list to secure the future of these organisations. James Unaipon (born James Ngunaitponi) (c. A recent article by Pro Bono Australia suggests 1835 - 1907) was an Australian Indigenous that giving to charity in Australia grew by just 2 preacher of the Warrawaldie (also spelt per cent over the year to February 2015, down Waruwaldi), and a Lakalinyeri of the from 10 percent at the same time last year. Ngarrindjeri. The National Australia Bank’s bi- annual Charitable Giving Index shows that the Born James Ngunaitponi, he took the name average donation size grew by $2 to $336 per James Reid in honour of the Scottish Free donor, with nearly all charity sectors Church minister who baptised him. As James experiencing an increase in average donation Reid he was sponsored by the Aborigines' size. Friends' Association for training as a missionary The Index shows that growth slowed in most at the Point Mcleay Mission on the banks of age groups (except 65+), in all regions and Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of there was significant divergence in the rate of South Australia in 1865. After arriving at Point charitable giving growth across charity categories. Mcleay from his home in Wellington, Unaipon returned to using his birth name of Ngunaitponi “The slowdown in giving mirrors some key findings from our Consumer Anxiety Reports however, the Europeans anglicised his name to which shows that Australians are responding to Unaipon. heightened stress by cutting back spending on On 27 July 1866 James Unaipon married ‘non-essentials’, including charitable donations,” Alan Oster, Group Chief Economist Nymbulda, the daughter of Pullum (King Peter) said. who was the Rupelle of the Ramindjeri. The Rev George Taplin assumed that the position of The NAB Index also shows a very strong relationship between average dollar giving and Rupelle was hereditary and widely promoted average incomes in affluent suburbs across the Nymbulda as a queen, believing that a country. missionary related to royalty would be more In terms of giving as a percentage of income, influential in converting the Ngarrindjeri. The Victoria’s Castlemaine continues to lead the Rupelle was in fact elected by the Indigenous country for generosity, donating 0.36 per cent Tendi (tribal parliment) and conferred no of residents’ annual incomes, closely followed additional status to his family. by Sturt in South Australia, where residents donate 0.35 per cent of their annual incomes. James Unaipon co-authored writings on the Humanitarian, health, disability, family and Ngarrindjeri language and was the first community services charities continue to Aboriginal deacon, and the father of attract the biggest market share of all renowned Australian inventor, David Unaipon. donations, with 59% of all donations. The Index is also a powerful indicator of how people are giving to their charities. Mobile apps Growth in Aussie donations slows and web-based charities are changing the (Source article: Pro Bono Australia) landscape and revolutionising the way people donate. As the CLLMM project and other government funding for environmental works wind back, an “With more seamless channels for donation, increasing number of Lakes and Coorong and a much stronger desire to give digitally, environmental groups are turning to private it’s important for charities to understand this giving as a way to fund their future works. shift in behaviour,” Rebecca Kotow, NAB’s Head of Community Engagement said. Page 2 NFP Expert Advice Exchange around the coasts, where it inhabits sheltered Launched in NSW marine shores with mudflats or sandflats for foraging and nearby sandbanks, spits or islands (Source Pro Bono Australia) for roosting at high tide. Less often they can be found away from the coast at saltlakes and Wouldn’t it be great to have something like this terrestrial freshwater or even brackish wetlands. in South Australia? Recently a Grey Plover was located within the The NSW Government, via the Office of Social land purchased by State Government for the Impact Investment, has launched an initiative Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary. to connect social sector organisations with pro Almost all the Grey Plovers which migrate to bono expert advice from professional services Australia are female! Where are the males? firms. It is a shorebird whose numbers are in decline, The Government has established an Expert so it is important to answer this question. With Advice Exchange (EAX) platform to connect the aid of transmitters to monitor their migration Not for Profit organisations with pro bono routes and breeding sites BirdLife Australia’s advice from 23 law firms, professional services special interest group - the Australasian Wader firms and financial institutions. Studies Group - are hoping to shed some light The experts will provide advice in: on what is causing this decline. procurement and tendering Transmitters are expensive. But they are also the most effective way of studying shorebird business case development migration. governance BirdLife are trying out POZIBLE’s innovative program design and evaluation crowdfunding website to raise the needed $17,680 by 9am on 9 June - and they business planning and strategy are already over 40% of the way there. The Government announced via its online Social Impact Investment Knowledge Hub that the EAX is designed to help Not for Profits and social enterprises participate in new ways of funding social services in NSW, like outcomes- based contracts and social impact investment. It said eligible organisations will be matched and referred to a participating firm that can provide the support needed. The panel will also recommend the number of hours of engagement. Please pledge to this fantastic project by clicking the image above, so the transmitters can be up and running in time for the 2016 Crowdfunding for the Grey Plover? migratory season. (Article from Birdlife Australia) Please feel free to pass on this link Australia is home to a number of resident (www.pozible.com/project/194554) to your plovers, but the Grey Plover is different. It friends