Project Description
The Project
Funded by Noosa Council, the project has been running since May 2005. The Noosa Volunteer River Ranger Project is one of the many outcomes of the Noosa Catchment Management Strategy (July 2001). Using NICA’s boat, the Volunteer River Rangers are out on the river each week engaged in WaterWatch, River Watch, Sand Island Weeding and Bird Counts.
It is estimated that the dollar value of the volunteer’s time over the four streams amounts to $22,300 or 534% return on the grant. This doesn’t include the social capital of having this work carried out by a community based organisation.
NICA’s volunteers doing water testing at a site near the oyster reefs at Settler’s Cove.
Objectives
- Provide NICA a presence on the river to facilitate various aspects of river management
- Assist in the implementation of local, catchment and regional strategies
- Provide information to facilitate education and awareness on catchment, river, biodiversity, water quality , ecosystem health and fisheries
- Provide assistance to institutional, government and industry based research
- Identify environmental issues and potential project sites
- Coordinate litter collection and assist with pollution control
- Encourage a volunteer support base to assist the River Ranger either directly or indirectly through existing groups
- Promote community discussion and participation
Sponsorship News 2024
Gambling Community Benefit Fund
NICA is pleased to acknowledge, with sincere thanks, the donation of a grant of $23,952 for the purchase of boat equipment including a new outboard engine, trailer and safety equipment. The NICA boat is used for river monitoring and management, rubbish collection and environmental surveys such as mangroves, shorebirds populations etc.