The Pondcast

Turning back the tide

Meet Jarred, the man with the job of trying to manage the competing needs of our environment where the river meets the sea.  Managing coastal estuaries with the competing needs of the environment and the community can be tricky, but he also gets to spend a lot of time outdoors in some pretty spectacular environments, learning from traditional owners, helping landholders and working with community and school groups.

Volcanic plains and lonely flowers

We sit down with Aggie and Ben, the Glenelg Hopkins CMAs natural resource management planners in the Biodiversity team who are charged with protecting an area known as the VVP. We learn how locking up and leaving native grasslands is the worst thing you want to do if you want to actually look after them, and why they’ve been clocking up the kilometres playing cupid to an oddly named little yellow flower.

What is a CMA anyway?

The Glenelg Hopkins CMA protects and enhances the land, water and biodiversity across about 26,000ha of Victoria's south-west. But, does anyone really know what GHCMA stands for? In this episode, we meet Adam Bester, the CEO of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA and ask him what his organisation does, how it does it, who funds it, and who does all the work.