Possum & Glider Training Course

When: Saturday 16 June 2012
Where: Coopernook Hall
Time: 9am to 5pm 

About:  Possum co-ordinator, Jodie Issac will present this training using the WIRES possum and Glider training module and comprehensive WIRES Training Manual. Costs for the course are:

A: $40 including course, the Manual and lunch; or
B: $15 for course and lunch only; or
C: $10 for course only for adults; or
D: $10 for course and lunch for juniors:
(e.g. A couple with Manual and Lunch would cost $55 = A + B) 

Bookings must be made early indicating the names/s of the persons/s attending and whether you will require the extensive and detailed Possum/Glider manual and lunch.

We need lead time to order the Manual printing and arrange catering so members wanting a manual and catering must book no later than Friday week, 18th May.

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Payments can be made on the day - please have the correct cash available.

Wildlife friendly netting

Every year thousands of animals are injured in inappropriate netting of back yard fruit trees, or discarded netting. It entangles birds, lizards, snakes, bats and even the occasional possum. The netting cuts their mouths to ribbons as they try to bite themselves free, and wraps so tightly around them that circulation is cut off and tissue dies, days or even weeks later. The animals die of thirst, starvation, strangulation or outright pain and fear in the nets. Many of those 'rescued' die later as a result of secondary infection, or are euthanased because they are unreleasable. The nets go on killing year after year even when they have become tattered to the point they are no longer protecting fruit. Many landowners leave fruit to fall on the ground and rot, or the fruit are of such poor quality they do not eat them anyway - yet the nets remain killing wildlife.

Netting should always be disposed of carefully as animals such as snakes and lizards are very easily trapped when it is left lying on the ground. They are like ghost nets in the ocean, discarded fishing nets that trap and kill marine life.

To see them in action check out their YouTube videos by clicking here

To view the website to read more information please click here and help protect out wildlife and save your fruits and plants.

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FAWNA (NSW) Inc is the wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, release group licensed by National Parks Division of the Office of Environment and Heritage. FAWNA operates from Dungog, Stroud and Gloucester shires,northern Great Lakes, Greater Taree, Port Macquarie-Hastings, and Kempsey shires. FAWNA’s volunteers rescue flying-foxes and work closely with them. Together with scientists & conservationists who work with flying-foxes, wildlife rescue & care volunteers have an interest in any health risk associated with flying-foxes because they work closely with them.

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