Department for Environment and Heritage

Naracoorte Caves National Park

Friends have assisted bat reserachers Terry Reardon (SA Museum) and Chris Grant (Deakin University) in tracking Southern Bentwing Bats to their feeding grounds

Friends have assisted bat reserachers Terry Reardon (SA Museum) and Chris Grant (Deakin University) in tracking Southern Bentwing Bats to their feeding grounds.

The Friends of Naracoorte Caves group was launched in December, 2003 by the then Manager of Community Liaison Unit, Dene Cordes. The group was established to support us in the management of the Naracoorte Caves National Park and World Heritage Area. Members are involved in a wide range of activities, from assisting fossil and bat researchers to weed removal and cave restoration. Some activities to date include two one day fossil workshops with Prof Rod Wells and Dr Liz Reed of Flinders University, removal of weeds adjacent to cave entrances without the use of chemicals, cave maintenance and activities celebrating Threatened Species Day.

For more information on the group's activities please view the following Friends of Naracoorte Caves newsletters:

Winter/2 2008 (150Kb PDF)

The Friends of Naracoorte Caves secured a grant through Envirofund to rehabilitate two important wintering caves for the Southern Bentwing Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii bassanii on private land. Restoration work has involved the removal of many years of agricultural and household waste from the two caves. Work has been assisted by a Green Corps team and bats have already returned to the caves. These sites will be linked by establishing native vegetation corridors to the Naracoorte Caves National Park, forming part of a greater project creating a biodiversity corridor along the Caves Range.

Before restoration   After restoration
Before restoration
After restoration


Friends of Naracoorte Caves 2008 Program

10 August 

Fossil preparation day; talk by Liz reed on activities in Blanche Cave 

15 – 17 August

Parks Forum "Footsteps in the Flinders" Old Wilpena Station
Registration required.

31 August

Working Bee at Tantanoola Cave. Meet at Tantanoola Cave at 11am. ( If interested in car-pooling, meet at Wirreanda at 9.30 am). BBQ lunch provided

7 September 

Threatened Species Day  (theme this year is water)

12 October

11 am meeting & BBQ; Caving Day

23 November 

Christmas get together

 

 

TBA December 

Christmas pageant 

Contact

To join the Friends of Naracoorte Caves, contact the secretary Alison Rowe at naracoortecaves@saugov.sa.gov.au or phone (61 8) 8762 2340

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