Livestock farms are often vilified in the media and by livestock activists as places where industrial land use change and historic clearing of native vegetation has resulted in the extinction of anything native. That’s wrong – but how does any farm counter that media when much of the biodiversity using farm land is fast moving or seasonal, and hard to get a photo of.
A Pop-Up-Puddle Biodiversity Survey Kit enables farm businesses to get verifiable evidence of the biodiversity their property supports.
The kit submitted by Lisette Mill from Basalt to Bay Landcare Network won an encouragement award in the Sustainability-Environmental category of the Dairy Innovation Awards.
Water is a strong lure to all creatures but what if your farm habitat has all the water in high sided troughs or is in places where there is no water at all or it’s only there in winter?
The Pop-Up-Puddle Kit solves this problem in high conservation sites with only seasonal surface water. Trials of the prototypes have recorded biodiversity that was previously unknown from various sites.
We thank our sponsors, Great South Coast Food and Fibre, Elders and South West TAFE for their support.