Landcare In Focus - November 2012 Edition

1● ● ● ● Living landscapes at‘Bundanon’ T HE arts have continued to flourish by the Shoalhaven River in the 20 years since Arthur and Yvonne Boyd gave their 1100 hectare riverfront property “Bundanon” to the Australian people. So has the lantana. Several... More

1● ● ● ● Living landscapes at‘Bundanon’ T HE arts have continued to flourish by the Shoalhaven River in the 20 years since Arthur and Yvonne Boyd gave their 1100 hectare riverfront property “Bundanon” to the Australian people. So has the lantana. Several years ago the Bundanon Trust recognised that it had a daunting problem on its hands. While the Trust had been managing the human aspects of Bundanon and adjacent Riversdale, lantana and other environmental issues had been quietly degrading sizeable areas of the property’s environmental heritage. Much of Bundanon’s 15 kilometres of Shoalhaven river frontage is severely infested with lantana. When the issue was reviewed, Bundanon Trust chief executive Deborah Ely said it quickly became clear that the challenge was bigger than the Trust’s resources, and of the local catchment management authority. But earlier this year, Landcare Australia announced that another act of philanthropy, the Borland Bequest, will be put to the aid of arti Less