July 2019 – NICA has welcomed the recent news from Noosa Council that ongoing financial assistance was to be given to NICA operations and selected projects. The 3 year Community Alliance agreement was particularly important in providing a degree of certainty and stability that enabled NICA to provide administrative, financial management and accounting support to a suite of new and continuing projects.
The new ‘Gardens for Wildlife’ community engagement program that will provide a resource and service for urban landowners wishing to enhance urban ecology, through increasing understanding of biodiversity values on their property, and promoting enjoyment, awareness and citizen science.
The River Ranger volunteer program will also continue with Council support to provide regular river bank clean ups, water quality monitoring at numerous sites, weeding at sites only accessible by boat, and continuation of the shore bird monitoring in the Noosa River estuary. There was a separate grant that will allow in excess of 10 years worth of shore bird monitoring data to be analysed and published.