The Pondcast
Episodes
CMA Landcare Leaders - Jeff and Morna Semmens
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Jeff and Morna Semmons Planting trees in stones and how a crowbar and open mind helps. Morna and Jeff a...
CMA Landcare Leaders - Nelson Coastcare Inc
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders Series Nelson Coastcare Inc - Mary Styles In this episode, we meet Mary Styles from the Nelson Coastcare Inc g...
CMA Landcare Leaders - Angus and Bobbie McLean
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Angus and Bobbie McLean, Pigeon Ponds How a rabbit refuge became revegetated and regenerated When Angus Mc...
CMA Landcare Leaders - Jane O'Beirne
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Jane O'Beirne, Hopkins River, Warrnambool Creating a Hopkins River haven for all For the last 25 years, pl...
CMA Landcare Leaders - John Keillor
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series John Keillor, Cashmore Park, Portland Putting back what was once there across the landscape In John’s fa...
CMA Landcare Leaders - Hamish Bailey
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Hamish Bailey, Park Hill, Wannon How going hard early is paying dividends 20 years later By his own admiss...
CMA Landcare Leaders - Peter Armstrong
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Landcare Leaders series Peter and Jo Armstrong How treeplanting led to a conservation mystery at Curra In this episode, we meet ...
Integrated Italian Buckthrown control
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are back out on the Tyrendarra flora reserve with Robin Adair controlling Italian Buckthorn. This introduced exotic plant is playing havoc in the r...
Reinstating the forgotten woodlands
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On a drizzly windy spring day, we found members of the Friends of the Forgotten Woodland on a roadside, planting banksia, sheoak and sweet bursaria pl...
The entirely unpalatable Italian Buckthorn
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Italian Buckthorn - the woody weed with tasty red berries is beginning to encroach on our landscape. In this episode, Glenelg Hopkins CMA's Tania Park...
Tossing golf balls into grasslands with ARI
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are out in the grasslands tossing golf balls into quadrats with researchers from the Arthur Rylah Institute. Brad Farmilo loves tal...
Don Rowe - winning trophies for treeplanting
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we meet Victorian Landcare Awards Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award winner Don Rowe, from Maroona. This award ack...
Searching for the Bittern
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pondcast we are talking all about bitterns. We talk to project manager Jacinta – who explains the project behind finding the elusive Austral...
Discover Discovery Bay
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Find out why the coastal area of south-west Victoria is so internationally important, not just for its geologically significant wetlands, but also for...
Restoring the grasslands
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Native grasslands on roadsides are often driven past without a second thought, but a passionate group of people are taking an active role in restoring...
What's soil got to do with it?
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Soil used to be seen as the enemy in natural resource management (NRM), and there was once a great divide between the farming community and those auth...
Why native fish need ladders and hotels in our waterways
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We met the dynamic duo getting stuff done along the waterways of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA region – Steve and Alex. These two are responsible for putt...
Turning back the tide
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Jarred, the man with the job of trying to manage the competing needs of our environment where the river meets the sea. Managing coastal estuari...
Volcanic plains and lonely flowers
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Aggie and Ben, the Glenelg Hopkins CMAs natural resource management planners in the Biodiversity team who are charged with protecting...
What is a CMA anyway?
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Glenelg Hopkins CMA protects and enhances the land, water and biodiversity across about 26,000ha of Victoria's south-west. But, does anyone really...