This week, in the first pod for 2022, Gerard catched up with some wonderful private landholders who have spent 40 years rebuilding a functioning wetland on their property and a local government officer who tells us all about a new wetland that has recently been built to protect the Gippsland Lakes.

To round things off, Dr Adrian Clements from the WGCMA chats about wetlands, their role, importance and future as we celebrate World Wetlands Day on Feb 2

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This week, Gerard chats with his boss Marty Fuller from the WGCMA to look back on the last 12 months.

One of the key themes from the chat is the importance of partnerships in the work the CMA does as well as the willingness of landholders to get on board with river restoration and protection.

There is also a quite acknowledgment of the passing of David McAninley from the Jack and Albert River community who passed away this week.

David was a pioneer of Landcare and also featured in a podcat earlier his year where we celebrated his 50 year+ involvment in Landcare alongside his neighbour David McAuley.

Finally, if you have time, we have a quick survey to help us review the year and plan for 2022

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This week, Gerard caught up with dairy farmer Kate Mirams and Regen Ag Agronomist Jade Killoran at Kates farm in Newry, Gippsland.

The pod visited Kate back in August 2019 where along with Jade we discussed the pretty new experiment in regen agriculture that Kate with her husband Pete were embarking on.

Could they grow more feed, retain more water in the soil and sequester carbon all at the same time?

This is a fascinating interview featuring two people across exactly what is happening and what they would like to see in future years - the trial is funded through to 2023.

There is a special 'nerd-athon' section of this pod featuring plenty of data and stats so stay listening stats fans!

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Today, Gerard speaks with the Manager of the Registered Aboriginal Party (RAP) with the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aborignal Co-operative (GLaWAC), Uncle Russell Mullett.

An Elder, Uncle Russell speaks about the development of Native Title in Gippsland and both the impact and the challenges Traditional Ownership present.

It's a fascinating discussion which we hope you enjoy.

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This week, Gerard had a trip east to chat to a bunch of people about the Gippsland Lakes and the Love our Lakes program in particular.

Over recent years there has been a range of initiatives and funding to improve the health of the Lakes and their surrounds.

In this pod you'll hear from Landcare folks about fox control and foreshore rehabilitation as well as local government about creating wetlands and Gippsland Ports abouot Seabed riendly Boat Moorings (yes, they are a thing!)

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This week, Gerard spoke with Martin Potts from Greening Australia.

Marty has been working in the area of habitat restoration for close to 20 years and is now seeing the fruits of his work as areas improved in the early 2000s reach maturity and start to attract the wildlife indicating a healthy and robust environment.

Marty also speaks about how there are emerging methods for landholders to receive payment for the good works they do on their properties.

As always, when you chat with Marty, it's impossible not to be impressed by his knowledge, passion and commitment to making the world a better place.

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This week, Gerard caught up with CEO of Odonata, Sam Marwood and Josh Grifiths from Enviro DNA to chat about the Great Australian Platypus Search.

If you haven't heard of it, don't fret, but it is the worlds largest Citizen Science project and aims to map the numbers and habitat of the, probably most loved of all Australian animals - the platypus!

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This week, Gerard spoke with Jason Good from Bass Coast Landcare Network about his role as Pest Animal Co-ordinator in and around Bass Coast and South Gippsland.

The converstaion commenes with his work on Dream Island, one of the Barrier Islands north of Wilson's Prom and then moves to Phillip Island and Jason's work there to eradicate foxes.

Impressive stuff. There is also a frightening anecdote about just how clever and mischevous domestic cats can be!

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This week, Gerard took a ride around Clinton Tepper's Buln Buln property to find out all about multi-story farming.

Working from the ground up its Soil>Pasture>Trees>Livestock - so four levels.

This is a fascinating pod full of ideas that just subtly change the way we might think about managing landscapes while at the same time protecting the land and running a profitable enterprise.

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This week, Gerard caught up with Peter Devonshire and Rose Mildenhall from the Gippsland AgroForestry Network to discuss all things trees.

Peter and Rose have both planted trees on their individual properties and have been heavily involved with teh Master Tree Growers course which has been running in Gippsland over several years.

In this episode we find out all about the art, the science, the aesthetics and the economics of growing trees.

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